This election has been on the calendar for quite a while. It has been in all the papers...
There was (and is) a strong possibility that a Democrat could win the election and that is almost always bad for reloading. It certainly was under Obama. Kids couldn't even get .22 LR for their first firearm.
The time to buy stuff was a couple of years ago when I first started posting about this. We knew it was coming, we had the election date on the calendar and if people failed to heed my advice way back when, well, here you are.
Heck, I remember conversations like "I can't afford to load 9mm or .223, it is simply too cheap" to which I responded that during Obama, one local agency was paying $2/round for .223 while I was loading it for $0.26/round. I had a bunch of ammo; they could barely cover qualifications.
You couldn't afford to load it a couple of years ago and you can't get supplies to load it today.
One couldn't predict the civil unrest but that is a big factor in purchases today.
I'm guessing that Biden wins and things are ugly for the next 8 years. Or, worse yet, Biden wins, becomes unqualified and Harris takes over. That ought to send ripples through the shooting community. Ripples about the size of a tsunami.
There are two solutions the next time things ease up: Buy a boatload of ammo or buy a ton of supplies. If premanufactured ammo is inexpensive, buy a 10 year supply.
When should you buy supplies? As soon a Powder Valley has inventory.