Gouge, tax, regulate, and otherwise make difficult.

“Hey,if we can’t grab ‘em we can at least gouge ‘em.” Gouge, tax, regulate, and otherwise make difficult. As in, buy up all the ammo because by law they have to sell to the gummint first. Estimate I saw was that Homeland Insecurity has enough ammo that, measured by what our military expended in Iraq, they could wage full-scale war for ten years.

Hunker down. Here it comes.