That and the more targeted line of "black people can't own guns?" was the line of arguments that successfully block banning "Saturday Night Specials".
The Left, which like cancer never sleeps just switched targets and was successful a short time later in 1986 at banning imports and manufacture of new full autos for sale to civilians.
That and the more targeted line of “black people can’t own guns?”
Yep. I read an interesting piece in The Amsterdam News, a black newspaper, back in the 80s that removing firearms from poor people removed them from the people who needed them most. It was a particularly good, pro 2A piece. I wish I could find it.
Regardless of its origins, the term “Saturday Night Special” was used disapprovingly for decades in the South by law enforcement to refer to inexpensive, small caliber handguns used to settle close-quarter disputes in low-income neighborhoods - often involving alcohol, often on the evening of the last day of the workweek.
The term referred to the guns but more broadly was juxtaposing the people and culture surrounding the guns; in other words, black-on-black violence.
Don't know if Lynyrd Skynyrd was developmental enough to understand the context. Being from Jacksonville, they should have been.