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People that claim they won't buy anything now at expanded prices because they have plenty on stock already are "prepared" or hoarders or whatever you want to call it. This is no different than buying stock, you hope to buy low and sell high. For me it is usually buy high and sell low. Gold has dropped $600 an ounce recently. Sirs ( and madams), this is capitalism and there is nothing wrong with it. You take a gamble when you buy high hoping to sell even higher. The Hunt brothers did this years ago trying to corner the silver market and I believe they lost their shirts. The alternative to all of this is that some government worker demands that the price is set by the government and then there will be NO supply at all (remember the first Arab oil embargo).
On the positive side, as a reloader, supply is picking up. Primers, powder and bullets are becoming much more available which means that they are not being tied up in the commercial market and that most likely will be available at lower prices. What has surprised me the most was the shortage of rimfire ammo. Are all of the big companies converting their efforts to centerfire ammo and away from rimfire because that's where the money is? The shortage will be over when rimfire is readily available. And then all of us will be hoarders again ( or just call us prepared).