"Oh its not chicken little.....Its American business. Wake up."
So here's a quick tutorial... DEMAND for ammunition is not static. While the dollar is falling, and while the price of oil is going up (which OPEC has agreed to offset by picking up production if necessary), DEMAND will have to rise or SUPPLY will have to fall (very general rule of economics)
However, with your vast understanding of American business, why don't you go ahead and predict what's going to happen in the future? Your immediate effect on futures may or may not be true as people panic about the middle east. Even though, as I mentioned OPEC has pledged to pick up production to stabilize the price of oil. So looking three-four months down the road where are we?
Surely, the price of ammo can only keep going up right? It has to... prices never come back down....
WAIT THEY WILL! Inevitably they must, it's only a natural reaction to the falling dollar and the falling amount of disposable income! I wish I could find the beating my head against the wall emoticon. So you raise prices... demand will eventually sink. Demand sinks and they either retract supply or lower prices. Luckily most businesses realize that if you lower your profit margin by lowering prices a little bit you will eventually end up selling more of the product and therefore earning a larger profit overall...
So:
Its American business. Wake up.
Thanks for the wake up Punisher's Armory... I hadn't had time to walk through a principles of Econ lesson for a couple years. Actually since last time people decided to panic over ammo prices...
However, yes in the short term ammo will be going up.