Rumor has it that pressure is already easing. I've heard (actually seen some proof!) that the worst has already passed, that by November we'll see "the light at the end of the tunnel". Given the boom - bust cycle associated with panic buying, those manufacturers that didn't look long-term and created too much excess capacity could be in real trouble. I predict a fire-sale mentality by spring as glutted hoarders stop buying and warehouses fill up again. The same will hold true for firearms. Some of the key points in the article are the observation that retail prices have remained stable, and fears of bans haven't panned out. Chicken Littles can only sustain a state of panic for a limited time; maintaining it requires ever escalating stimulus which hasn't happened (at least not with firearms). Those of us who were well situated before the panic and didn't react to the hype should be able to reap significant benefit after everybody else goes back to "head in the sand" mode. It's all about timing. 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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