Saturday night special
Was a specific gun referenced here, or did it mean any cheap firearm? Also, how old is the term?
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I think, more than just cheap, it would refer to a handgun that had been rendered difficult to trace by the filing off of identification numbers etc. A weapon meant to be used as a criminal tool.
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Found a legal definition (from Minnesota Statutes 2002):Quote:"Saturday night special pistol" means a pistol other than an antique firearm or a pistol for which the propelling force is carbon dioxide,...
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Lively lyrics for Saturday Night Special:http://pub135.ezboard.com/flauraallenonlinefrm5.showMessage?topicID=28.topicSaturday Night Specialwritten by Dewayne Blackwell & Larry Bastianmade famous...
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Okee Dokee. Here's another one.Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd Song Title: Saturday Night Special Two feets they come a creepinlike a black cat doand two bodies are layin' naked.Creeper think he got nothin' to...
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I'm not sure I buy the 38 holes in Greg's lyrics -- these are supposed to be cheap pistols, would take until Sunday morning to shoot that many times.
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Here's an intersting URL. Sorry I don't seem to grasp how to post it as a link. http://www.fivecities.com/strider/commentary/strider8.html
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Just for future reference, dh, in the Reply box, just under the re: heading you'll see two buttons, Plain Text and HTML. Click the HTML one and several options appear to the left of the box: image,...
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Quote:I'm not sure I buy the 38 holes in Greg's lyrics -- these are supposed to be cheap pistols, would take until Sunday morning to shoot that many times. Ozzie, it's not the number of holes, but...
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>And you used to live in Chicago? Yes. The Montgomery Ward headquarters were on the Chicago River at Chicago Avenue, next to the Cabrini Green housing project (the highest crime rate in the country...
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Never found out -- but I finally understood what you were driving at with your first question. Sometimes I can be alarmingly dense.
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I probably should have been more specific. I keep forgetting that you are in the land of fruits and nuts, while I am in the land of guns and nuts. :)
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Saturday Night Special:Saturday Night: In America, a BIG party night.Special: When connected to the above, it means a GUN that can be easily concealed and is bought at a low price... a small gun,...
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ozzie, that'd be "Monkey Wards"...On the Minnesota statute quoted earlier- I presume that is an attempt to put out a specific 'legal language' definition in order to control such guns, possibly under...
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Pretty amazing that Minn. chose to codify what a SatNiteSpec was - I guess to determine appropriate sentencing? rather than own up to the fact that on drinking night, poverty night, in the US you...
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At a tangent, ozzie, I enjoyed the lyrics.Don't know why I said that. Mosts of my posts are at a tangent. But anyway, there ya go. FWIW. Just filling up space here. Fluffing it out. Or trying to fluff...
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> that sticking up a gun shop would be in anyone's best interestsNo, but about a year ago, someone broke into a TV/video shop somewhere, and was caught on like 32 running cameras.Not a joke, I...
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With the ubiquitous availability of cheap guns these days, you never hear about zip guns anymore. A zip gun is a home made pistol.aldi, FWIW, in my area a saturday night special is any cheap, small...
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