Guinny_Ire
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- Jan 6, 2009
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oneounceload has it absolutely correct. Prices rise to where demand is curbed. Otherwise, no stores would have primers and when they were received you'd never see them on the shelves because employees would buy them up and sell them on the blackmarket/secondary market. The fact that many stores are rationing the primers is an indication that they are not price gauging as they could raise the prices to where only a few could afford primers and would be wiling to pay the higher prices. Ultimately, if primers aren't banned, taxed, seized, demand should drop dramatically putting the producers in almost the same position as the car companies. They've satisfied future demand going out years for some and those people will not buy until they have gone thru their inventory or they liquidate it or even destroy it (guy dies wife tosses 25k in primers in the trash or in the lake).