Second Amendment Foundation

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to promoting a better understanding about our Constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms.

To that end, we carry on many educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate.

Most Recent Articles by Second Amendment Foundation:

SAF, Defense Distributed Sue New Jersey A.G., Los Angeles City Atty. July 30, 2018

"You cannot exercise the right to keep and bear arms without being able to buy or make your own firearm"

SAF SUES CALIFORNIA DOJ OVER FAILURE OF ONLINE REGISTRATION SYSTEM July 13, 2018

SAF and its partners want the court to prevent DOJ from enforcing the law to allow individual plaintiffs and other citizens in the same situation to register their legally-possessed firearms through a “reliable and functional registration system.”

SAF, CCRKBA CHALLENGE WA INITIATIVE, SEEK INVALIDATION June 30, 2018

"Just because this initiative is supported by wealthy Seattle elitists doesn’t mean it could be circulated in a form that violates the law"

SAF, CCRKBA Warn I-1639 Sponsors That ‘Unreadable’ Petitions Violate Laws June 20, 2018

Fundamental problem with your petitions

Court Grants Injunction in SAF Challenge of Deerfield, Il Gun Ban June 13, 2018

‘OKC SHOOTING AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF ARMED CITIZENRY,’ SAYS SAF May 25, 2018

"It takes something sinister to open fire on unarmed people in any public place"

Bloomberg’s ‘Epidemic of Dishonesty’ Includes his Own Anti-Gun Efforts May 14, 2018

Suggesting that surrendering a basic right of self-defense and the tools to protect one’s home and family will somehow move average citizens closer to the idyllic security of the rich and famous is the most dishonest thing of all

IMPRISONING PREGNANT WOMAN ON MICH. GUN CHARGE ‘BARBARIC,’ SAYS SAF May 9, 2018

What is happening to Siwatu-Salama Ra isn’t just questionable, it might even fall under cruel and unusual punishment

SAF Sues Illinois Agency Over Day Care Operators’ Gun Rights April 17, 2018

SAF and ISRA are also challenging the ban and confiscation of certain firearms and magazines in the Village of Deerfield

SAF Lawsuit Challenges Gun Ban in Chicago Suburb of Deerfield April 5, 2018

Levies fines of up to $1,000 a day against anyone who refuses to turn in their gun and magazines or move them out of the village

SAF Says ‘Gun Control Hysteria’ Is Reason March NICS Checks Spiked April 3, 2018

“When you blame people for crimes they didn’t commit and attack their rights, they will defend those rights by exercising them.”

SAF: SATURDAY MARCHERS SHOULD REMEMBER THAT GUNS SAVE LIVES March 23, 2018

Lost in all of this debate is the fact that lives are saved every day because a properly-used gun was available

SAF To Help Students Defend Their 1st. Amendment Right to Support 2nd March 20, 2018

If students are penalized for exercising their First Amendment rights to defend the Second Amendment, we want to know about it

‘Seattle Gun Tax Revenue Falls, And Fails, Again’, Says SAF March 17, 2018

“The public, and especially Seattle taxpayers, have a right to this information.”

SAF Reports 1,200% Spike in Members, Donors From Young Adults Since Florida March 12, 2018

Media has paraded high school students to push a gun control agenda

SAF, ISRA Sue Housing Authority Over Gun Ban For Residents March 9, 2018

“It is simply unacceptable for citizens living in public housing to be denied their basic right to have a firearm for personal protection, and in this case, it is unconscionable.”

Media Sensationalism Partly to Blame for School Shootings Says SAF February 20, 2018

Media be as responsible with their First Amendment rights as they demand gun owners should be when exercising their Second Amendment rights

SAF, Colorado Group File Amicus Brief In Magazine Ban Appeal January 23, 2018

Colorado's right to bear arms provision was included in the state constitution, adopted in 1876, and it has not changed since then

SCOTUS Review Sought in Challenge of Alameda County Gun Store Ban January 10, 2018

You simply cannot allow local governments to ignore the Second Amendment because they don’t like how the Supreme Court has ruled on the amendment twice in the past ten years

SAF AMENDS CHALLENGE TO CAL. ‘ASSAULT WEAPON’ REGS, SEEKS INJUNCTION January 4, 2018

California Department of Justice (DOJ) has engaged in (a) sort of unbridled improper exercise of power

Calguns seek Supreme Court reversal of 9th circuit ruling December 22, 2017

It’s time for the Supreme Court to straighten out this problem

SAF FILES CHALLENGE TO CALIFORNIA ‘ASSAULT WEAPONS’ REGULATIONS November 30, 2017

"We seek here to restore the rule of law—and some sanity."

SAF CONDEMNS ANTI-GUN HYPOCRISY AFTER NEW YORK CITY CARNAGE November 1, 2017

“The problem isn’t gun violence or truck violence,” he said. “The problem is violence, and we’ve got to deal with this problem together.”

JOINT STATEMENT FROM SAF, CCRKBA ON ‘BUMP STOCKS’ October 6, 2017

“We recognize that banning firearms accessories is not a solution to violent crime.”

D.C. Declines to Take Wrenn CCW Case to SCOTUS October 5, 2017

Common sense says that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause will not allow that conflict to continue

D.C. COURT OF APPEALS DENIES EN BANC HEARING ON WRENN, A MAJOR WIN FOR SAF September 29, 2017

Wrenn v. District of Columbia

SAF FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN CASE OF FLORIDA MAN’S DEATH BY POLICE September 19, 2017

“Who among us would not take precautions when answering a pounding on our door in the middle of the night? After all, this is the United States, not a police state.”

32nd ANNUAL NATIONAL GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE SEPT.29-OCT. 1 IN DALLAS September 12, 2017

SAF, CALGUNS FILE PETITION FOR SCOTUS REVIEW OF SILVESTER CASE September 1, 2017

FEDERAL JUDGE DENIES CHICAGO MOTION IN SAF-BACKED GUN SHOP CASE August 31, 2017