Saturday night specials are infact legal.. however illegal to manufacture or sell.

The term has been bastardized by modern culture, racists, rappers and retards... so I'll give you the real scoop here....

A Saturday Night Special is a gun that was made by couple of different companies... but the one that comes to mind is Harrington and Richardson (thats right... single shot H&R/NEF). They were revolvers, short/snub nose, in a variety of calibers. The thing that made them "special" was that they were made out of cheap pot-metal. The metal was of such poor quality infact, that you could actually melt the gun into a puddle with nothing more than a hot burning gas stove-top... just like melting lead. The danger of this, of course, from a law enforcement standpoint is it makes getting rid of the murder weapon a downright simple operation. They are not illegal to have, as I understand it, but the few that came into the gunshop were quickly sent off with the owner as an FFL is not allowed to be in possession of one. So the story goes anyway.... might be outright illegal... who knows. But thats what makes a Saturday night Special... "Special".