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Saturday Night Special A slang term used to refer to a surprise takeover attempt. Notes: The term alludes to the fact that many takeover bids are announced over the weekend in order to avoid too much publicity.Saturday night special Often used in risk arbitrage. Sudden attempt by one company to take over another by making a public tender offer.
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| This bill does nothing to ban junk guns, but actually harms the public and law enforcement. Juliet Leftwich, Staff Attorney for the Legal Community Against Violence, a group advising communities on local firearms-related ordinances said: "Thirty-nine cities and counties currently have junk gun sales bans in place. One thug with a gun can ignore almost any number of unarmed citizens, but if every citizen is carrying a Saturday night special or a junk gun or whatever awful identification the anti-gun crowd is currently touting, the thug would be dead meat the very next time he attempted an armed assault. |
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