A little history and value of this thalco revolver please. Davis p380 initial shooting impressions saturday night. This is one of the quintessential saturday night special guns. The saturday night special and other hardware the new. If you do own one and its in bad shape, dont try to refurbish it.
My study was obviously limited by the relatively small number of guns my upscale suburban police department seizes. Saturday night special is a colloquial term in the united states and canada for inexpensive, compact, smallcaliber handguns of perceived low quality. It is the opening track on their album nuthin fancy. Wich do you believe is the best saturday night special. I can always find a quality used handgun, for the same money. In 1970, george jennings founded raven arms, the first of the infamous ring of fire gun manufacturers that specialized in cheap, semiautomatic pistols, especially. And other guns with which americans won the west, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks. Thus, it isnt clear that saturday night special laws would have that much effect on crime rates. Although the term implies such a gun is for use in crime, studies show that criminals prefer highquality guns, in the largest caliber they can easily conceal.
Table 1 depicts the model estimates for the gun law variables under four assumptions about the temporal relation between the post saturday night special ban effects and firearm homicide rates. Thanks to davis, i think, we have this stupid safety certification program in califonia for any gun sold by a gun dealer that most certainly adds to the cost of guns sold in califonia. Saturday night special is a pejorative or slang term. He worked on the gun control section of the 1968 omnibus crime control act. Saturday night special is a racist term from the prohibition era, and was used for propaganda purposes. In the days before the gun control act of 1968 there was no requirement that the gun be marked with the name of the manufacturer or the importer.
The obvious implication of the phrase saturday night special is that it is a gun used by niggers to shoot each other with during their wild saturday nights. My father was a government attorney who did stints with the justice dept. Saturday night special is a slang term generally used to refer. He said that he was a gun owner and that he had an antique gun over his fireplace. For more info, please go to their website and follow the links. The leftwing writer robert sherrill put it even more bluntly in his classic antigun tome the saturday night special 1973.
I recognized it as an antigun book, but was astonished at how the antigun crowd was described. A look back at the first pistol feared by liberals as an evil handful of sensless death ahahahahaha the saturday night special. Page 2 the saturday night special is more than a saturday night special. The gun control act of 1968 was passed not to control guns but to. Saturday night special by robert sherrill abebooks. When asked if he had ever been shot he did state that he shot himself accidentally, but didnt elaborate on. The saturday night special, and other guns with which americans won the west, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed by robert sherrill and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Back when i was a kid, my mom used to carry a saturday night special in her purse. Further, justice department figures show that only one in 10 violent crimes involve the use of a gun. The guns often were linked to crimes and identified in crime traces by the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives. Shop online for 38 special pistols and revolvers from top brands. Mud 2012, take shelter 2011, shotgun stories 2007, but this time he goes a bit heavier on the science fiction while maintaining his focus on the individual. I have a break barrel pistol i was told that it is a saturday night special. If you can help it, a character might be better off with a handgun with more bite than a. Saturday night special isnt just a song to lynryrd skynyrd. T1 effects of marylands law banning saturday night special handguns on crime guns. What it means is any handgun which the control freaks want to ban at the time, from a. Dealers please contact us about this book and others published by. This is the legacy of the old saturday night special. The pre68 titan guns have only logos or symbols for the manufacturer and importer.
The model number on the trigger guard and under the grip is 10607. It is impossible to classify accurately the price of firearms merely by. Great values on fine cutlery from the saturday night knife and gun show. What gun is known as a saturday night special, and why. Brought into the us from germany by rg industries, importation of this revolver was stopped by the gun control act of 1968. Saturday night specials are often defined as any cheap, lowcaliber pistol or revolver, easily. Smith wesson saturday night special firearms talk the. This browser extension shows you which amazon book.
In 1970, george jennings founded raven arms, the first of the infamous ring of fire gun manufacturers that. I have read about reck firearms on the internet, but would like some personal comments about this unknown to me brand. Guns at center of saturday night special lawsuit to be. Some states define these junk guns by means of composition or material. In the hands of the right person a saturday night special can be much more. Saturday night specials bans havent worked, investors business daily feb. They are the classic definition of a saturday night special, also known as a junk gun. Robert sherrill, a major supporter of gun control in the 1960s. He even looked up the value of the gun in his big book. This thread is home to all those who fear flaming for admitting that they have a jimenez used to be bryco, a cobra used to be lorcin and davis, a hi point, or a heritage that works in spite of the hate and bigotry of quite a few gun owners. Doing some research on this i found that is is the original saturday night special and a very cheaply made gun. Chef rylie and her best friend of 20 years,police officer aarons story.
Sherrills work on this point is worth quoting because it so closely tracks. A modest proposal for gun control the washington post. Odd mn laws that ban really shitty guns, i just found this out today and thought i would share. This saturday night special is being shot for the first time in 30 years. We stock a full range of beretta pistols, glock pistols, taurus pistols, ruger pistols and revolvers, kimber handguns, smith and wesson handguns, sig sau. Saturday night specials are often defined as a small pocket pistols with a low perceived quality. The saturday night special is more than a saturday night special.
Saturday night special rg 23 i have an rg 23 it is a 22lr revolver made by rohm gmbh. Jan 22, 2015 guns at center of saturday night special lawsuit to be destroyed by matt drange january 22, 2015 attorney richard ruggieri modified this bryco arms model 38 with an additional internal safety mechanism to demonstrate to an alameda county jury how the gun could have been made safer. From our legendary western gunslingers, more rascals than heroes, to our national flirtation with gangland kingpins. Youre far better off in the long run getting something with decent resale value, a ruger, colt, etc as when. That means not a range gun meant to be fired allot. Brandons story is the subject of a soontobe released book by mike. The liberal skeptics speak out, gun rights advocate don. Nevertheless, since the 1970s federal sns legislation. Such guns, while affordable, are typically of dubious reliability and. Either way, its a gun worth some money, and maybe a lot. Effects of marylands law banning saturday night special. In my book, the writers guide to weapons writers digest books. Nov 22, 2007 the point is the davis is almost the original saturday nite special, meaning it is made of pot metal, rather poorly at that, and can be dangeous to shoot.
Why are some cheap guns called saturday night specials. Back in the 1980s, when the gun was being imported from germany, it sold for are you ready. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. No one denies that the people disarmed by a saturday night special ban would be predominantly poor and nonwhite. Guns at center of saturday night special lawsuit to be destroyed. And other guns with which americans won the west, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless.
Originally a gun didnt have to be poorly made to qualify as a saturday night special. These guns are all over 70 years old and every one of them is worth some money. The immediate, constant post saturday night special ban model estimated a 7. Saturday night special lynyrd skynyrd song wikipedia. Seymour duncan saturday night special humbucker pickup nickel cover neck. Fun to shoot, not very accurate, definately do not function well when dirty. It is a real life saturday night special that was manufactured by cdm inc out of new york, ny. Definition of a saturday night special is basically a low end poorly made gun,smith and wessons are not poorly made,they are the best. The name was given to a class of small, cheap revolvers that were made in profusion between about 1870 and 1890. Bryco was one of a handful of southern california gun manufacturers known as the ring of fire, which together produced millions of inexpensive handguns commonly called saturday night specials.
The owner muttered something about my saturday night special and politely declined. The term saturday night specials came about the davis p32 and. The saturday night special named for the small, usually illegal, easily concealed handgun that has been used in millions of crimes is a freewheeling withering report on a severe national syndrome. As some of you know i love to buy shitty used guns that come into my work place. So much so that bass player leon wilkeson actually took to wearing a holster and a real gun onstage luckily the gun was only loaded with blanks. Odd mn laws that ban really shitty guns, i just found this. They are focused 100% on guns that are inexpensive, not guns that have any defects or unsafe nature, just guns that are cheap enough for poor people to buy. I recognized it as an anti gun book, but was astonished at how the antigun crowd was described.
Recently had a death in the family and in the night stand was a brand new rg model 31 in 38 special with a full box of 38 special special agent ammo and a cleaning kit. I often wondered why i never had a phoenix arms come in and was poking around today at work and found this. Some states define these junk guns by means of composition or material strength. I have an rg 23 it is a 22lr revolver made by rohm gmbh. The maryland law banning saturday night special handguns was associated with a 9 percent decrease in firearm homicides in the state between 1990 and 1998, according to a new study from the johns hopkins center for injury research and policy at the johns hopkins bloomberg. So much for the saturday night special myth buckeye firearms association. Marylands 1990 saturday night special ban reduced gun homicides in the state, new study shows. In 1958 donald blake webster wrote a book entitled suicide specials, now long out of print. The thalco plinker is a relabeled rohm gun also sold as the rohm rg10, cdm, rosco, valor, vestpocket, western style, zephyr, and others and a bunch of other private labels. Herbert schmidt 22 lr, dbl action, 8 shot, revolver the.
Saturday night special is a slang term generally used to refer disparagingly to relatively compact, less expensive, smallcaliber handguns. Original condition guns are worth a lot more than one that has been altered. N2 objectives to determine the effects of a 1988 maryland law that banned saturday night special handguns on the types of guns used in crime. Wich do you believe is the best saturday night special pistol. It would not be a bad choice for concealed carry and is a 5 shot deal. The second reason is theyre easy to shoot and conceal. So saturday night specials dont seem to be used disproportionately in gun crimes. Watch saturday night live highlight gun control cold open on.
I was a junior in high school and reading every book i could find about guns and hunting, we had a great school librarian in the prepc days, and i made frequent trips to town just to check out the newsstands for any gun publications. New and more powerful guns the ring of fire companies have by no means rested on their success in the traditional smallcaliber saturday night special market. Even the alarm among gun owners stirred by books such as robert sherrills 1973 bestseller, the saturday night special, arguing for banning cheap, compact pistols such. Saturday night special ban 2002 news releases johns. Saturday night special is a song by lynyrd skynyrd. These 9 vintage guns are worth way more than you think. Saturday night special the firearms forum the buying. Austinbased filmmaker jeff nichols serves up some of the familiar themes of spiritualism and parenting seen in his first three films. Im sure he was just referring to some kind of snub nose. Sep 11, 2019 the winchester model 1873 is known as the gun that won the west. The made in italy marking was all that was required, as it was required for all imported goods, not just guns. These might seem strangely ungrateful responses to legislation that would at least banish from gun stores the weapon whose price makes it the.
Bryco, jennings, jimenez, raven, lorcin, rg, saturday night special forum. Saturday night special by mari carr nook book ebook. The phrase saturday night special sns is a colloquial term used in the united states and canada for any inexpensive handgun, especially a mousegunpocket pistol. Heres a second look at a family saturday night special.
The first video has been one of my most popular, but the video quality was poor. The term suicide special was coined by duncan mcconnell in an article in the american rifleman of february 1948. My fatherinlaw gave me this pistol some 45 yrs ago when i told him i was interested in guns. Aug 27, 20 herbert schmidt 22 lr, dbl action, 8 shot, revolver. Beyond that, i totally avoid any cheapo saturday night special handguns. Does anyone have any personnel knowledge or experience with a reck revolver. Saturday night special by lynyrd skynyrd songfacts. A saturday night special is an inexpensive gun of perceived lesser quality due to poor workmanship or use of inexpensive metals such as zamac or, for reasons relating to gun politics. Originally, it could be, say, a spanish surplus military. Apr 17, 2015 that means not a range gun meant to be fired allot. I own a saturday night special the truth about guns.
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