As of this week, I'm sitting on about 25k of my handloads, feeding 24 different chamberings for around 200 firearms. I can outfit a small army all by myself.
However, we're far from a Mad Max scenario, wishful thinking aside.
FDR would probably be doing the same thing, because if this whole Wall Street mess is allowed to implode at once, everybody's precious FDIC deposits would be next.
IOW, the Fed is trying to prevent another Black Thursday. People may indeed piss and moan, but they'd bitch even more were there to be a complete collapse.
Think about it.