Don't know what caliber you're shooting, but you hit the bullseye with this one.Now everyone run out and buy more to increase the demand and make the shortage worse!
Nothing brings down prices like increased demand.
Buy what you've always bought and in the amounts you've always bought it.
At this point the prices have gone up. Buying MORE than normal at higher than normal prices makes no sense. It cost you more and drives the demand (and the prices) higher. That causes others to panic, buy more than normal and the spiral continues. We can keep this shortage going for a long time if gun owners keep "cooperating" to keep driving demand up.
Let's say that when you would normally buy a box of ammo you buy two instead because of the shortage. Let's say that all gun owners do that. We just doubled the demand for ammunition in the U.S. and we didn't even need a war to pull it off.