Latest Second Amendment Foundation Stories
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation will launch an ambitious three-week public education and awareness effort on nationally-syndicated talk radio programs, and XM Sirius radio to explain its legal and educational efforts and encourage public support. SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb said a series of advertisements will air on "threats to firearms rights and SAF's response through litigation against...
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation has won a preliminary injunction against a part of the State of New Mexico's concealed carry statute on the grounds that it violates the right of equal protection under the law. The ruling, handed down by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, was signed by M. Christina Armijo, the chief district judge. SAF filed the legal action on behalf of John Jackson, a permanent...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thursday's edition of the Washington Times includes a special 12-page section focusing on gun rights paid for and sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation. The section includes reprints of articles from other sections of the Washington Times, plus commentary by SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. Also included is Ted Nugent's famous open letter to Vice President Joe Biden, several articles by...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today won a significant victory for concealed carry when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a December ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that forces Illinois to adopt a concealed carry law, thus affirming that the right to bear arms exists outside the home. The ruling came in Moore v. Madigan, a case filed by SAF. The December opinion that now stands was written by Judge...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Second Amendment Foundation's petition for a Writ of Certiorari in a case challenging New York's gun permitting statute, along with several other interested parties that have filed their own briefs. The case is known as Kachalsky v. Cacace and was argued before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. SAF is represented by...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today challenged the nation's leading opponents of gun ownership to "lead by example" and give up their own firearms and armed security before expecting the citizens, for whom they work, to surrender their ability to defend themselves. "It seems clear from the direction the administration is going that it wants to severely restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners to purchase the firearms...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Foundation have joined a broad coalition of organizations in support of a national "Gun Appreciation Day" on Saturday, Jan. 19. The Gun Appreciation Day website is at gunappreciationday.com. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the movement is in response to announcements from the Obama White House and Capitol Hill that there will be...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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. The Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said that a national dialogue on violence has already begun in the wake of the Sandy Hook school tragedy, but that a national commission would be more able...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Inviting Americans to "Meet the Mayors" who have been involved in the anti-gun-rights Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Second Amendment Foundation is launching a campaign in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet that exposes the criminal and ethical wrongdoings of many members of that organization. The "Meet the Mayors" ad can be seen at: http://saf.org/images/maig.pdf "Michael Bloomberg created this group to further his...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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. "A story in today's Huffington Post tells about a pharmacy worker who could only watch as people started walking down the street robbing stores," said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. "But so many shopkeepers are defenseless...
