Second Amendment Foundation

McDonald, Ezell and Moore, Oh my!

Gun prohibitionists, unhappy with a series of significant court rulings since the landmark Heller decision in 2008 that affirmed the Second Amendment protects a fundamental individual civil right to keep and bear arms, have taken the tack that subsequent court rulings are narrow and not that important.

Gun Rights Groups call for National Commission to Study Causes of Violence

BELLEVUE, WA – Two leading national gun rights organizations are calling for the creation of a national commission to study the causes of violence in America, and offer possible preventive measures.

SAF Wins Huge Victory for Carry in Illinois

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation has won a huge victory for the right to bear arms outside the home, with a ruling in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that declares the right to self-defense is "broader than the right to have a gun in one's home."

SAF Starts Petition Demanding Apology

In response to a recent op-ed by FOX Sports' columnist Jason Whitlock and a subsequent statement that "I [Whitlock] did not go as far as I'd like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America's gun culture - I believe the NRA is the new KKK," SAF has started a petition demanding an immediate and public apology to America's gun owners.

U.N. Celebrates Obama Reelection by Pushing Global Gun Control

BELLEVUE, WA - Less than 24 hours after winning re-election, President Barack Obama's administration joined with China, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and more than 150 other governments, in supporting renewed debate on the proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, confirming the worst fears of the American gun rights community.

Post-Storm Brooklyn Looting Shows Importance of Gun Rights, Says SAF

BELLEVUE, WA - Looting in Brooklyn, N.Y. as Hurricane Sandy moved out underscores the importance of the right to keep and bear arms, especially in an emergency, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

SAF Remarks to U.N. Stopped By Storm Still Carry Powerful Message

BELLEVUE, WA - It took a hurricane to prevent it, but remarks originally scheduled to be delivered today at the United Nations by the Second Amendment Foundation still carry more clout than a storm, said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb.

Second Amendment Foundation defends woman’s right of selft-defense at U.N.

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation today reminded the United Nations that "if women have the right to be protected against violence, then they have the right to protect themselves against violence."

SAF delighted with Judge’s ruling in Maryland case

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation is delighted that the judge in a Maryland case that challenges the constitutionality of that state's handgun permitting scheme is ready to lift a stay on his original order for the state to process carry permits without a citizen having to provide a "good and substantial reason.'

SAF, ANJRPC React to NJ Attorney General brief on gun case

Squandering an opportunity to redeem the Garden State for its long disparagement of the Second Amendment - and in particular, the right to carry - New Jersey's newly appointed Attorney General has instead slapped gun owners in the face in the latest set of papers in a federal lawsuit brought by ANJRPC and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) to overturn New Jersey's unconstitutional handgun carry laws.

SAF, Calguns Foundation Sue Oakland, San Francisco Police

BELLEVUE, WA The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the police departments in San Francisco and Oakland, California for refusing to return firearms to people who had been charged with crimes, but subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing.

North Carolina lets emergency powers ruling stand

BELLEVUE, WA - North Carolina's failure to appeal a federal judge's ruling that struck down the state's emergency power to ban firearms and ammunition outside the home during a declared emergency adds one more Second Amendment victory to the court record being established by the Second Amendment Foundation.

CCRKBA rips Tampa mayor, lauds FL governor over CCW flap

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today lauded Florida Gov. Rick Scott for defending the rights of law-abiding gun owners by turning down a request from Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to ban the carrying of firearms during the August Republican National Convention.

SAF sues New Mexico over law barring CCW permits for legal resident aliens

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in New Mexico challenging that state's prohibition on the issuance of concealed carry permits to legal resident aliens.

SAF sues public housing gun ban in Warren Co. Illinois

BELLEVUE, WA - The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the Warren County, Illinois Housing Authority, seeking an injunction against the WCHA's ban on personally-owned firearms by residents of government-subsidized housing.

SAF wins 2a case in Mass, striking down gun ban for legal aliens

BELLEVUE, WA - A Federal District Court Judge in Massachusetts today granted summary judgment in a Second Amendment Foundation case challenging that state's denial of firearms licenses to permanent resident aliens.

SAF victory strikes down North Carolina emergency powers gun ban

BELLEVUE, WA - A federal district court judge in North Carolina has just struck down that state's emergency power to impose a ban on firearms and ammunition outside the home during a declared emergency, ruling that the provision violates the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

SAF hails WA high court denial of Seattle gun ban appeal

BELLEVUE, WA The Second Amendment Foundation is delighted that the Washington State Supreme Court has unanimously denied the City of Seattle's petition for review in the case of Chan v. City of Seattle, a legal action brought by SAF, the National Rifle Association and five individual plaintiffs.

Maryland ruling a huge victory for second amendment, says SAF

BELLEVUE, WA - A federal court ruling in Maryland, that the Second Amendment right to bear arms extends beyond the home and that citizens may not be required to offer a "good and substantial reason" for obtaining a concealed carry permit, is a huge victory, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

The glaring hypocrisy and checkbook journalism of Media Matters and David Brock

Recent published reports that David Brock, head of Media Matters, had his own armed bodyguard while the organization took more than $400,000 from the anti-gun Joyce Foundation to push "gun and public safety issues," offers one more revealing example of crass elitism.