Riddle me this: If it's the government causing the shortage, why is the worst hit 22LR? Also answer this: why are calibers the government isn't buying also virtually equally affected?
Que?
Here is your answer: Because dumbass, paranoid idiots want to have 20,000+ rounds in their closet, but they don't want to spend the money on it. So they buy the cheapest shit they can find. Guess what that is (when it was available). 22LR.
Tired of the paranoid circulation. Government purchases - even if increased - are NOTHING compared to the increase in demand caused by customers, specifically, idiotic customers. This is all the making of the US Citizen.