Slogan: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. (December 21 1967)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/4/2013 06:23 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The phrase became popular right after the 1968 assassinations of King and
>Kennedy prompted a campaign to end sales of "Saturday night specials":
>cheap roscoes supposedly marked down on weekends, allowing the impulsive to
>pony up just a few bucks to go out and plug that creep.

Was it that they were bought on weekends, or that they were taken out
on Saturday nights?  (And employed, say at 3 AM when the bars emptied
and fights erupted in the streets.)

Joel

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