Y'all missed the CWA 1974 and RCRA . There's all of the baggage that has/is pending to be/been enhanced . It's all part of the mix , wages I doubt are in the mix at this point .
I stocked up in the last lull and by comparison I am short on one primer and until I can get settled down and make shows etc I will likely remain as such . I only use 6 primers and could trim that to 5 and may in the future .
I could get by with FOUR, if I could find/afford adequate supplies of the exact powders (those not requiring mag primers) I want; LR, LP, SR, SP.
I could further get down to TWO if I really HAD to; SR/SP, LR/LP, SR/LP or LR/SP.
If things got really tight, I could get down to ONE and that would be SR, because I keep heavy springs in my 357 revolvers and make sure they will light RIFLE primers. That would also allow me to shoot 357 Mag/Max rifle, 222,...
I have all of seventeen 357 cases which take LARGE PISTOL primers, which I keep just in case I'm in a pickle of having only large primers. Wish I had a bunch more of those as well as some 30 American brass, so I could feed at least one rifle bigger than a 22 with small pistol primers.
I envy the "annoyance" some 45 ACP shooters suffer, in that they can shoot whether they have small OR large primers - if they have not thrown out or given away that irksome small-pistol-primer 45 ACP brass.
My current "primer strategy" has been effect for over ten years, and would be going much better if not for prices (for everything) going up and up and yet, not so much wages.