I shared with some others privately that I recently suffered an injury involving handloaded ammunition. I don't share this to digress into the details of my incident. Just know it involved a VERY dense pistol powder, with a tighter than needed crimp, in a super light weight pocket revolver. Perhaps a perfect storm of less than ideal circumstances.
My wife is sympathetic as my blown apart left thumb recovers, however she's REALLY down on the hand loading hobby now. (I just realized the pun in "hand load" since my "hand" was injured, but I digress)
I experienced the 2012 panic as most had, and vowed to not get caught by surprise again. In addition to accumulating commercial cartridges when good values were found, I also began accumulating components. Nothing crazy, but a few thousand primers of each type, enough smokeless powder to match, and about enough projectiles for 1/4. The reason I went lighter on the bullets, is they have no hazmat restrictions for shipping and thus are logistically simpler to acquire. I really thought of it like "I have $1000, what's the wisest investment I can make to have the greatest ammo supply long term?"
Again, I've got enough components to to load up an infantry squad with .223.
I suppose I can lay low for a while. Maybe just break out a brick of .22lr and take it from square one with my wife. I really do not prefer cases of military ammo. I think my stuff shoots a little better. When a person says they prefer the M885 NATO 62gr green tips, I think they aren't any kind of serious marksman.