Thanks for sharing the videos. You know, there is only one thing that makes their stories not totally air tight. They knew this was coming. They knew for the past 4 years, for the past 12 years, that this was coming. They knew the current party would not be in power forever. They knew that some day the opposition would regain power and they knew that, when that party came to power, there would unprecedented demand, just as we are seeing. They probably had no idea about the pandemic and the civil unrest, but they should have spent the past 12 years adding production capacity because they knew it would be needed a some point.
The ammo makers said essentially the same thing in 2008 and 2012. "We can't keep up, and we can't add capacity in 9 months." And I believe them. But it has been 12 years since Obama came to power and the ammo and components completely and totally disappeared for almost the entire time he was in office. By now, it should be painfully clear to all but the most blinded people that we will have at least 4 more years of this demand. (In fact, when we can no longer import ammo, we're going to have a supply side problem as well as a demand side problem.)
It's time to start breaking ground on new facilities. Not just at the assembly point, but the plants that make powder and primers and the plants that make cases and projectiles as well. These guys need to start forward thinking. This is like standing around watching the Titanic head straight for the iceberg and no one is trying to turn the ship.