I’d say the curve of the bubble encompasses a couple years, from ramp-up, to fear, to panic, to gradually-released tension. A lot of the ‘edgier’ guys were loath to surrender their pet conspiracy theory (“First, the rimfire will be banned/taxed/priced out of reach, then the centerfire cartridges!”).
But yeah, it’s on the shelves. .22 WRM is what’s hard to find, these days. ![]()
Edit:
Oh, and speculations by retailers didn’t help any. They’d recieve a case, put half on the shelves and regulate the sale (“one brick per customer of the cheap stuff, but if you buy a firearm, you can also buy two bricks of the good stuff!”*), then they’d put the rest for sale on-line at inflated prices.
- saw that with my own eyes at a local shop
