Godogs,
One of the biggest current component shortages is primers--which has tended to occur ever since the 1990s, after the Clinton "assault rifle ban" was passed. Primers were almost unobtainable for a year or so, partly because of the rumor going around that all new primers were designed to "go dud" within six months. Which is why some people were putting primers inside PVC pipe, and burying them in their yards.
Which is one among several reasons I just started working up loads for "improved" rounds years ago, unless there was a good reason to use a bullet-less fire-forming method. I'd rather use primers for actual shooting than pre-forming brass--and then going to the range and burning up more primers when working up loads.
In fact I've fire-formed a lot of standard brass into "improved" cases when shooting varmints, in cartridges from the .22 K-Hornet to various Ackley Improved rounds.
