Here is how to pay attention:
Watch politics and current events. Figure that there is now a guarantee of depleting impulse and panic buying on recurrent intervals from now into the foreseeable future. Bet on it. Because that is what has happened, and relatively recently. And also over a period spanning nearly 30 years now.
There were runs on guns, ammo and primers multiple times, just in the last ten years.
Sandy Hook was bad. Fears that a Democrat president would be elected on a couple of occasions. Threats of gun control followed these events and drove up impulse buying. George Floyd. Covid. You name it, unrest and disunity cause it. Repeatedly. Multiple times in the last ten years, as stated.
This all started in 1994 with the first primer panic proximate to the assault weapon ban.
If you are caught short now, resolve never again.
Primers are the last thing to return during such events. And yes, if some attention was paid to unfolding events and their recurrence the old guys don’t have much excuse. You now know primers are a commodity more valuable than money and smooth the bumps in supply when the next panic occurs.
And it will.