Mainsail
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This was published by GeorgiaCarry.org
Having been stationed at Charleston AFB in SC, I was somewhat of an oddity in 1987 because I owned a Glock 17. At that time, the Glock pistols were considered ‘Saturday Night Specials’ due primarily to the temperature at which the frame melted. Thus, no dealer could sell them and no gunsmith would work on them. I found it preposterous that my full sized Glock could be considered a SNS, but that was the law.
I asked several knowledgeable people and was told the law was written, originally, to keep poor blacks from owning guns, as the guns that we would normally recognize as a SNS were cheaply made from pot-metal and inexpensive. At the time I could easily have gotten twice the $400 I paid for the Glock 17 new, as private sales were not banned. The law was changed when the State Patrol wanted to start carrying Glocks themselves.
This was published by GeorgiaCarry.org
Having been stationed at Charleston AFB in SC, I was somewhat of an oddity in 1987 because I owned a Glock 17. At that time, the Glock pistols were considered ‘Saturday Night Specials’ due primarily to the temperature at which the frame melted. Thus, no dealer could sell them and no gunsmith would work on them. I found it preposterous that my full sized Glock could be considered a SNS, but that was the law.
I asked several knowledgeable people and was told the law was written, originally, to keep poor blacks from owning guns, as the guns that we would normally recognize as a SNS were cheaply made from pot-metal and inexpensive. At the time I could easily have gotten twice the $400 I paid for the Glock 17 new, as private sales were not banned. The law was changed when the State Patrol wanted to start carrying Glocks themselves.