Sounds to me like you're making some pretty pained arguments to validate why selling ammo at a profit is OK when you do it, but not OK if someone else does it, with everything being the same except for the timing of the purchase and subsequent reselling of the ammo.
This.
If the "gougers" were doing something shady - bribing sellers to only sell to them, or something of that nature - then it's wrong.
The "neckbeards" as whiners often call them - are simply setting the alarm clock early and going out to do something others are unwilling to do. They mark up their fairly purchased goods to whatever price they feel they can get for their ammo. You see, it's their ammo, and they are free to ask whatever price they choose.
Ammunition is not some community shared commodity, it's a manufactured product. I'd swear some on here would fit right in with a hippie commune from some of the attitudes about markets and ownership.