Originally Posted by foogle
Acquitance at hornady says raw materials such as lead and copper are imported.. those supplies dried up due to COVID effect on countries that mine these materials

That's plausible. Pretty sure raw materials are in short supply in all industries. Did he say if this was limiting production. The story you usually hear is that production lines are running full steam 24/7. These two lines seem to be inconsistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_copper_production
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264632/lead-mine-production-by-country/

It's hard to verify though if these raw material are indeed in short supply.