Second Amendment Foundation
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is an educational and legal-defense organization which describes its mission as “promoting a better understanding about our constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, SAF carries on many educational and legal-action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun-control debate.”
SAF was founded in 1974 by Alan Gottlieb, and as of 2012 it has over 650,000 members.[1]
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Publications
- The Gun Mag, a monthly magazine
- Women & Guns, a bi-monthly magazine
- The Gottlieb-Tartaro Report, a monthly newsletter
- SAF Reporter, a quarterly newsletter
- Journal of Firearms and Public Policy, an annual reference book
- The New Gun Week, weekly magazine that ran for 45 years, is now "TheGunMag"
Legal action
Identified as the "legal arm of the gun rights lobby"[2] the Second Amendment Foundation has been victorious, and is currently engaged in multiple lawsuits defending Second Amendment rights.[3]
In 2005, the Second Amendment Foundation and the National Rifle Association successfully sued New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and others to stop gun seizures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.[4] On February 12, 2007, Ray Nagin and others were held in contempt of court for violating the consent order.[5] The case is “National Rifle Association of America, Inc., et al. v. C. Ray Nagin et al.”.[6]
In 2005, SAF and others sued to stop the San Francisco Proposition H gun ban. On June 13, 2006, San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren struck down the ban, saying local governments have no such authority under California law. The City appealed Judge Warren's ruling, but lost in a unanimous opinion from the three judge panel in the Court of Appeal issued on January 9, 2008. The City then appealed to the California Supreme Court, which reached a unanimous decision on April 9, 2008, that rejected the city's appeal and upheld the lower courts' decision.
References
- ↑ http://www.thegunmag.com/saf_sues_over_missouri_ban/
- ↑ http://civilliberty.about.com/od/guncontrol/a/Second-Amendment-Foundation.htm
- ↑ http://www.saf.org/default.asp?p=legalaction
- ↑ http://saf.org/new.orleans.lawsuit/complaint.declaratory.injunctive.relief.pdf, Complaint for Declarative and Injunctive Relief, NRA and SAF, Accessed September 15, 2008, Now a dead link
- ↑ http://saf.org/new.orleans.lawsuit/order.for.contempt.pdf, Order And Reason, Carl J. Barbier, U.S. District Judge, February 12, 2007
- ↑ CNN transcript of NRA video interviews, aired on July 2, 2008 by Glenn Beck
Resist Incremental Gun-Grabbing of the Nanny State
Liberals and socialists support "common sense" measures - a "good first step" of the Nanny State. To a citizen-prepper-patriot and to the Bill of Rights, this is "death by a thousand paper cuts".
This Second Amendment Foundation video is the formal response to Hollywood's Demand a Plan gun-grabbing propaganda video. The video shows one of the main differences between liberal gun control Nanny states (Blue states) and conservative and/or libertarian Second Amendment-supporting "free states" (Red states). This video shows why we vote with our feet:
See Also
- Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment
- Oath Keepers
- Oath for federal officials
- Oath for federal judges
- Police states-Nanny states violate the United States Constitution-Bill of Rights (especially Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment) and Citizen's Unalienable rights
Second Amendment Defenders of American Liberty
- CalGuns Foundation - CGF
- California Right To Carry - Home of the only lawsuit seeking to restore Loaded Open Carry to California - http://blog.californiarighttocarry.org/?page_id=110
- Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms - http://www.ccrkba.org
- Gun Owners' Action League
- Gun Owners of America - GOA
- Gun Owners of California - https://www.gunownersca.com
- Handgun Club of America
- Idaho State Rifle and Pistol Association - http://idahosrpa.org, http://idahosrpa.org/membership-options/?choose
- Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership http://www.jpfo.org
- Law Enforcement Alliance of America
- Liberty Belles
- National Association for Gun Rights
- National Shooting Sports Foundation - NSSF
- Oregon Firearms Federation - http://www.oregonfirearms.org
- Montana Shooting Sports Association - MSSA
- National Rifle Association - NRA
- Oath Keepers
- Oregon State Shooting Association - OSSA http://ossa.org
- Pink Pistols
- Saint Gabriel Possenti Society
- Second Amendment Foundation - SAF
- Second Amendment Sisters - http://www.2asisters.org
- Students for Concealed Carry - http://concealedcampus.org
- Washington State Rifle and Pistol Association - WSRPA - http://wsrpa.org
- Western Wyoming Riflemans Association Inc. PO Box 605, Afton, WY 83110 - http://www.wwra.us
- Wyoming Gun Owners - http://wyominggunowners.org
- Wyoming State Shooting Association - http://wyossa.com
- Boston T. Party’s state firearms laws ranking from Boston's Gun Bible
External Links
- www.saf.org — official homepage
- http://equalgunrights.com
- http://saf.org/?feed=rss2 RSS News feed
- https://www.youtube.com/user/SecondAmendmentFound
- https://www.facebook.com/SecondAmendmentFoundation
- https://twitter.com/2AFDN
- http://saf.org/amazon - Support SAF via Amazon purchases.
- www.thegunmag.com — official print/online publication
- www.womenandguns.com — Women & Guns magazine
- www.gunweek.com — The Gun Week newspaper
- Bradburn et al. v. North Central Regional Library District — case history
- www.ChicagoGunCase.com Otis McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago — case history