Saturday night special

When one gets down to details, the issue of gun control includes a wide variety of approaches to the regulation of firearm ownership and use. Some of the details of gun control proposals can be arcane and subject to interpretation, such as what exactly constitutes an assault weapon or a Saturday night special. But in general, the debate over gun control involves questions such as the following ... [Pg.3]

Would banning the cheap handguns called Saturday night specials reduce crime by drying up a source of starter guns for beginning criminals Or would it deprive poor people of the most effective means of self-defense they can afford ... [Pg.7]

A number of laws regulate the importing of firearms. The Mutual Security Act of 1954 (P.L. No. 83-665) led to the establishment of import controls under the Office of Munitions Control of the Department of State. The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (P.L. No. 90-351) together with the Gun Control Act of 1968 banned the import of Saturday night specials and restricted imports of automatic weapons. Further restrictions on semiautomatic assault weapons were added by the Omnibus Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act of 1994 (P.L. No. 103-322). [Pg.42]

Right to Bear Arms in state constitutions Bliss v. Commonwealth Aymette v. State Nunn v. State Andrews v. State In re Brickey City of Salina v. Blaksley Arnold v. Cleveland Benjamin v. Bailey Schubert v. DeBard Quilici v. Morton Grove Saturday Night Specials Kelley v. R.G. Industries, Inc. California Rifle and Pistol Association v. City of West Hollywood Second Amendment ... [Pg.45]

Is the manufacturer or marketer of a particular category of small, cheap handguns, sometimes referred to as Saturday night specials and regularly used in criminal activity, strictly liable to a person injured by such handgun during the course of a crime ... [Pg.67]

Because .. . the manufacmrer or marketer of a Saturday night special knows or ought to know that the chief use of the product is for criminal activity. Such criminal use and the virtual absence of legitimate uses for the product are clearly foreseeable by the manufacturers and sellers of Saturday night specials. .. it is entirely consistent with public policy to hold the manufacturers and marketers of Saturday night special handguns stricdy liable to innocent persons who suffer gunshot injuries from the criminal use of their products. ... [Pg.69]

The court returned the case to the district court for determination of whether the gun used met the definition for a Saturday night special and, if so, for trial. [Pg.69]

The city of West Hollywood, California, passed a law banning handguns on a list of inexpensive guns often referred to as Saturday night specials. Two local... [Pg.85]

January Officials in the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, California, propose municipal ordinances that would ban the sale of so-called ultracompact handguns that can be easily carried in people s pockets. (Due to their good quality construction, such guns are not covered under existing legislation banning Saturday Night Specials. )... [Pg.108]

Saturday night special A term that probably originated in a slur against African-American neighborhoods, it has been popularized by gun control... [Pg.129]

Morgan, O. Reynolds, and W. W. Caruth m. Myths About Gun Control. National Center for Policy Analysis. Available online. URL http //www. ncpa.org/ea/eama93/eama93g.html. Posted December 1992. Succinctly rebuts various common assertions supporting gun control, such as the connection between guns and crime, defensive gun use, and the role of Saturday night specials. [Pg.162]

Cukier W, Sidel VW (2006) The global gun epidemic from Saturday night specials to AK-47s. Praeger Security International, Westport, CT... [Pg.39]

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