How did inexpensive handguns become known as Saturday Night Specials?

Detroit lawmen coined the term in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

They realized that Saturday night holdups were committed with handguns purchased in quick one-hour trips to Toledo, Ohio.

There, guns could be bought at filling stations and flower shops for $5 or $10, without time restrictions.

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