Plenty of chatter lately about an impending shortage.
Contributing factors reportedly include: primers shortages, the Hornady plant kaboom, foreign acquisition of a large percentage of domestic manufacturers, the US government consuming the entirety of. 556 produced at the lake city ammunition plant, and the most important consideration in my opinion, our vile political leadership doing their best to create WWIII.
My local sporting goods outlets have decent stock, as of a couple days ago. I even found the first large rifle primers I've seen on shelves in 3 years; picked up a few thousand.
Prices seem to be up 25% in a matter of just a few days. There were somewhere around 75,000 small rifle primers at the main store I shop about 5 days ago. When I visited next, 3 days later, they were all gone.
It seems to me we're looking at protracted proxy wars on two fronts, at minimum. (Janet Yellen says you and I can afford it, so that's good, right?)
We're also potentially witnessing the infancy of WWIII, God help us all.