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Related: About this forumSHOW US YOUR GUNS!!!- This is the NRA's dream....from SNL in 1975.
This is the NRA's dream....from SNL in 1975.
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SHOW US YOUR GUNS!!!- This is the NRA's dream....from SNL in 1975. (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. I see the late Tom Davis in the video - is Al Franken there, too?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)2. Saturday Night Live was a new show in 1975
and this video was a piece of satire based on the term "Saturday Night Special" which was a phrase in common use at the time used to describe inexpensive handguns used in crime. When was the last time anyone remembers that phrase used in the media to describe a handgun?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)3. The parody was based on cigarette commercial from a few years before
"Show us your Lark pack".
I remember both. I think this was the first SNL.