Charging competitive prices for a market item that has a good demand is not gouging. It's making a profit. Which a company needs to do to stay in business. If you view that as gouging then I recommend you never buy anything ever again because you are being gouged on everything. You fail to acknowledge this.
And I'm sorry but the LCR, regardless of it's low cost to produce still had to be designed, developed, casting and tooling had to be developed, and employees needed to be paid, for a new gun to exist that didn't exist prior to its creation. Ruger has been making SA guns for decades and likely already had a lot of the investment made. The LCR and LCRx development cost money. Plain and simple.