Thanks for the heads up on the CMP stock. I don't see the "old normal" ever returning to that level. Once the manufacturers started raising their prices, that old normal was replaced with what will be the future pricing. $50 a brick of 22 LR won't last forever, but the prices will never be what they were in November 2012 again.
As for demand, it will slow down once people get comfortable with what they have stocked up, but until this administration leaves office (and even then only if the left doesn't win again in 2016) elevated firearms sales and especially ammo sales will continue.
All the conspiracy theories aside, people are worried (and rightly so IMHO) about the mid-term elections loosing the House to the left, one of the right leaning SCOTUS Justices retiring or dying, the next mass shooting, the economy taking another downturn, etc etc etc.
Scared people buy the same things from the beginning of time. Weapons, Gold, and Land. I don't see this time being any different.
Then again, what do I know? I have been wrong before, and will be wrong again.