True, we do have to adapt.

BUT, this isn't the same as the 19 cent gallon of gasoline. That was 60 or 70 years ago, and it is to be expected that a lifetime of increasing taxation and inflation would result in today's gas prices.

2 cents a round was the price for 22LR ammo less than 10 years ago. What else has gone up 400%-500% in that period? In the last 10 years the price should have gone from 2 cents to less than 3 cents per round if it were just due to normal inflationary forces, and I know taxes haven't gone up that much in the last 10 years either.

No, this is something different. This has been an artificially created shortage, that then was exacerbated and prolonged by panic buying, hoarding, and profiteering. Like I said in an earlier post, now that the "normal" price is 4-5 times what it was before the "shortage" the supply is magically increasing.

Imagine that...