Hardly.
Gouging is gouging and should a gouger end up choking to death on their schit that'd be ok.
It ain't gouging unless you paid their price. I don't know, it has never happened to me. I purchase what I can afford, when I can, at the prices I am willing to pay.
Of course it helps if one has laid in a few boxes of stuff from Shooter's Pro Shop when they were flush with inventory. And for the stuff a guy runs out of and refuses to purchase at unreasonably infated prices???? I spent the money instead on tools to cast my own bullets.
