Old Bill Dibble
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IMHO, everybody does it, not just the control people. Most of all the last ammo/gun shortages have been caused by paranoia and not fact. Paranoia driven by "shaded" info from gun owners and advocates. We scream that the other side does it all the time, while doing it ourselves.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. The last panic (2012) was caused by a good faith effort to ban certain guns nationally after Sandyhook. The efforts resulted in several state bans. This isn't paranoia when they are actually trying to get you.
The 2008 panic was a perfect storm of politics, terrifying world wide economic collapse and ammo shortages spurred by metal shortages.
I'd say the 1999 panic was caused by the over reaction to the Y2K bug. Y2K was a real threat to civil order, one that was dealt with but it was still a real threat.