With states like Connecticut and Colorado passing strict new restrictions on gun owners and the President flying around the country to drum up support for national gun control, ammo buyers are like consumers queuing for gas or loading up on gold in the inflationary 1970s.
"We are seeing an incredible acceleration in the speed and in the breadth of the restrictions on abortion that are passing, " said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which supports abortion rights and challenges some of the state laws in court.
North Carolina Democrats began passing a flurry of Jim Crow laws in 1899, and new voting restrictions further disenfranchised blacks through a poll tax and literacy test.