Agreed,

I believe much of this situation was caused by 'panic buying' -
It's been all over the internet that supplies are short --
Threads and more threads about it.
Then even more panic buying and hording. Prices went WAY up because of this short term (for them) lack of sufficient production to fill the demand they couldn't keep up with. Hopefully the horders haven't caused a situation where the prices will not go back down, but they should decrease when supply catches back up. And it will.

It would be irresponsible financially for manufacturers to produce a much larger volume of ammo for a short term hording situation crated by panic. They can't expand manufacturing facilities, buy a larger fleet, and hire a much larger workforce to produce higher volumes of special ammo like .30 carbine when supply will eventually catch up with demand once the horders have enough ammo they purchased at these inflated prices.

If there was actually a demand that would be permanent you can be assured they'd expand facilities and make more ammo. Especially at the prices they're getting presently! JMO