ORIGINAL: Chantecler111
I, personally, think the statementabout the US becoming a 3rd world country, is a bit exaggerated, I also, called around today, and found out, that the big ammo price increase, is false. I don't know how much that means, but, at least, not everyone is saying prices will go up.
What that means is they aren't increasing their margins any. They are increasing the price to cover the costs of the materials, but still marking it up the same percentage to wholesalers/end retailers. The end retailers (who have to eat shipping charges, which is influenced by higher gas prices) may or may not change the margins, but one way or the other, if raw metals go up, and/or fuel goes up, ammo is going up with it. So is just about every other consumer product for that matter.