In October SAF filed our Petition for Cert with the Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the flawed Seventh Circuit opinion upholding Illinois’ ban on carrying guns on mass transit. Today, the Court formally asked the state to respond to that petition, and try to justify its

December 15, 1791: The Second Amendment became part of the Bill of Rights. More than 230 years later, its purpose remains clear—protecting an individual right that predates the Constitution itself. At SAF, we continue the work of defending this freedom in the courts and

Today SAF filed its Principal Brief with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in our Schmidt v. Paris case, challenging PA laws and regulations which subject FFL’s in the Commonwealth to unconstitutional invasions under both the PA State and Federal Constitutions. Read brief here -

BREAKING: Last Friday SAF outside counsel Ed Paltzik met with our Aliaj plaintiff Elsid Aliaj in Bergen County New Jersey. They visited the Fort Lee Police Department, which finally surrendered Mr. Aliaj’s firearms back to him, after their unconstitutional confiscation and

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In Breaking News, the Third Circuit has agreed to re-hear SAF's Koons case en banc. The Court's prior decision upheld numerous provisions of New Jersey's post-Bruen "Sensitive Places" law, which bans even permitting carry in many parts of the state. In taking the case en-banc,

@2AFDN Imagine you are riding in a stagecoach. Bandits attack you. You defend yourself. Then when the Sheriff arrives he arrest you for possessing a firearm on a stagecoach. Bruen history test can't support infringing #2A rights on subways. But so many states criminalize the right to

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We conclude by reiterating that we think this case calls for a summary reversal. But failing that, cert should be granted for next year's term.

Anticipating that Maryland will make the typical public safety arguments, our brief concludes with a section that has made appearances in several of our other briefs as well, showing that those with carry permits are overwhelmingly law-abiding (regardless of which state issued

This portion speaks for itself.

One gentleman posted his and his wife's adventure of getting carry permits that cover 44 states. In total, they spent over $7,000, aside from the massive time investment. And getting permits in the six remaining states would cost thousands more.

We go through the example of California and how time consuming and costly it is to get a nonresident permit in this state, then ask the Court to imagine being an Arizona resident planning a sudden roadtrip to California. You basically have no right to carry in California unless

Unfortunately, some of our largest states refuse to recognize the permits of any other states. They don't even recognize each other's permits, even though they are all similarly strict in permit issuance. The pain is the point, they WANT to make the right hard to exercise.