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80K primers is nothing.
The situation is this: there are the haves and the have nots. The haves are those handloaders that keep ample supply of most everything around at any given time. They keep tens of thousands of primers, several dozen pounds of powder, tens of thousands of cases and bullets.
The have nots are either just getting into it or don't keep ample supplies on hand.
There's nothing wrong with either type. If you causally buy small quantities you won't save much money and might get caught being out of stock at any given time. Hell I'm a "have" and am getting very low. I have 3500 SP primers, 1000 SPM, 4500 LP and 4000 SR primers with another 3,000 SP primers inbound. I have 150,000 primers on order from CCI. I burned through 75,000 rounds of ammunition this year with orders and this time I ordered double that so I don't get so dangerously close to being out again. It's not good for an ammunition manufacturer to be out of anything. Right now I'm out of several types of bullets.
Get in line and wait it out like the rest of us. It's happened before when Clinton took office, just not as much demand as this. Primers are relatively inexpensive. 5,000 will run about $130-150 or so. A rifle with decent scope runs $700-800. Sell it and get 40,000 primers. Not that bad when you look at it.
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