I believe that Crosman, like most companies around the world, thought that they had had never ending supply of parts for whenever they needed them. Just a few keyboard strokes and like magic the parts would appear, on their loading docks, a couple of weeks later. Well, as we can plainly see, that was a very foolish approach to allow their supplies to run so thin. They should have had a large stock on hand for times such as these. Even better they should be making most of the parts themselves as it is not that difficult with all of the cool machinery we have, at our fingertips, these days. But most companies in the world we now live in, were running lean on extra stock cuz they could make more money that way. How did that werq out for them? Well not so good, I would say, and it is no longer business as usual for anyone and many businesses have already failed. This is going to be a long term if not permanent problem for most.
So not even enough parts to run the Custom shop. Poor planning it is. But then again I am sure that having their business in New York doesn't help any either.