TX Hunter said:
I hope everything goes back to normal so we can enjoy our firearms again without worry.
Ironically, I've done more shooting since the panic began than I was before. I don't shoot hundreds of rounds a month, anyway, but I don't let my stock get low. I haven't bought a single component in probably a year and I've still got a couple years worth left.
I hope some folks learn some lessons from all this. First, any serious hunter/shooter should be reloading their own ammo and, second, they should be building a reasonable buffer of supplies, enough to ride out these panics which are caused by folks who DON'T plan ahead.
For me, 6 or 8 one pound jugs of powder and a few hundred bullets is plenty. For someone else, it might be 75 pounds of powder and 75,000 bullets but if it's done outside the panic, it won't feed the panic.