The sky STILL hasn't fallen...

I’m sure everyone has seen the prices that folks(even those that aren’t dealers) are trying to charge for ammunition these days. I was perusing a gun trader site today, and people are still trying to charge $50 for a box of .22lr that would normally be 20 bucks. Or $75 for a box of .45 ammo that should be $40 or less. People, STOP PAYING THESE RIDICULOUS PRICES AND PRICES WILL START TO SETTLE BACK DOWN. The government isn’t driving up the price, and while ammo companies have raised the price slightly, consumers/panic buyers are causing this issue. It’s nobody’s fault but the people handing over the stupid amounts of cash. The proposed gun legislations have had nothing to do with ammo, so I still can’t understand why everyone panicked and bought up every bullet that they could find. ARs and “high-capacity” guns, I get(kind of)…but not the ammo deal. Wake up and pull your heads out of your asses. Stop paying double and triple prices for ammo just because you found a box. If everyone would take a drink,

 eat some pileau, and settle down, prices would start dropping back to reasonable levels. Will they ever be as low as they have been in the past? Nope, but that holds true for anything these days. I bought ammo at a country store that is over an hour from the nearest town two weekends ago. I paid less for that ammo than you would at almost any gun store/show in the country right now. They wanted $23/box for 9mm and $22/box for .45acp. Now while this isn’t “wal-marks cheap”, I would never expect a store out in the middle of nowhere(literally over an hour from any town with a population of over 5k) to have prices like that. However, considering they had ammo on the shelves, and they weren’t trying to price-gouge anyone, I bought a few boxes. If everyone would use some common sense(I know, that’s not very common these days), everyone would be able to find some .22lr to plink with, and would actually be able to afford it again. So to summarize my dribble, quit being an absolute moron, and stop driving up the price of ammo everywhere.