About the ammo shortage; Best read yet.

[JSnover]

I don't know how to cast boolits...yet!
Guess I better learn.
I've been making my own primers for about 6 months with a hit & miss success rate (50%-96%).
I wonder if any regular Joe Blow has come up with a way to make their own brass and form it into case's?
Or take used, beat up brass and remake it into "new", useable cases, other than going through the reloading process.
That process doesn't make mangled brass into new brass, I mean actually melting it down and reforming it into real, new brass.

Just buy some. Prices might be horrible and it may take some time before you can get it but if anyone thinks now is the time to start prepping, there are a hundred more productive ways to spend that time, especially if you've never smelted, formed, or machined anything before.

[trebor44]

The information may be "new" to some but it really is rather old. The last two paragraphs are perhaps the most relevant. Monopolies disguised as a variety of "investment" schemes are, have been and will be forever prevalent in the financial world! If you have "investments", then you would/will have a source to generate monopolies. There are examples in every aspect of daily existence of working monopolies that benefit the 'investors' at the expense of consumers and users! Think about pouring milk down the gutters to keep the price higher etc. etc. The number of these events is infinite! It's not a government thing or a business thing, it is just being 'human'!