Saturday night special control

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 ... 

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). 

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

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. 

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