The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has announced it will defend former President Donald Trump’s gun rights in the wake of his conviction in a New York courtroom, which could result in the confiscation of his firearms.
“If Donald Trump is further prosecuted for owning firearms,” said Second Amendment Foundation founder & Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “we will offer to defend him and challenge the law.”
The veteran gun rights advocate noted it has always been SAF’s position that “Someone should not lose his or her gun rights due to a conviction of a non-violent crime.”
“Donald Trump has no history of violent crime,” Gottlieb explained. “Under the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen ruling, which requires gun laws to have some analogous connection to historical regulation at the time the Founders wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Mr. Trump should not lose his Second Amendment rights. There is no historical nexus to deny someone, including Trump, of their gun rights over such a conviction.”
“SAF has litigated challenges in the past to restore gun rights for people convicted of non-violent crimes,” SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut recalled, “and we will do so again. In fact, we are currently litigating a challenge to the denial of carry permits for some former plaintiffs whose rights were restored due to prior SAF lawsuits.”
“The attack on Trump’s gun rights emphasizes the need to revisit existing gun control laws and change them to protect an individual’s gun rights,” Gottlieb observed. “Until that happens, we will be more than happy to meet New York State or the federal government in court.”
Gottlieb and Kraut noted Second Amendment Foundation’s growing legal footprint in the gun rights legal arena. The foundation has nearly 60 cases currently in progress, and has won decisions all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Our motto is ‘Winning Gun Rights One Lawsuit at a Time,” Gottlieb stated. “That will include protecting and winning Donald Trump’s gun rights.”
Second Amendment Foundation
The Second Amendment Foundation (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 720,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
The term “felony” has no meaning, when the criminal charge for which it’s applied, not only wasn’t violent, it was a stretch for credulity.
I will call on GOA, Adam Kraut and Alan Beck if I get busted for having a gun in a Oregoneistan gun free zone. They are now felonies and I want to challenge it constitutionally in a supreme court not the court of clowns in Oregoneistan or the ninth circus court of seals. I don’t think that legally a business can say that they are gun free and hold me too it because they are creating a death zone and will not take responsibility for their actions if I get hurt because of them. What they are doing is breaking… Read more »
I applaud 2AF’s use of my hard earned donations these past years to legally support the rights of ALL citizens of the United States of America IAW the Second Amendment!!!! Keep up the pressure on these assholes who keep trying to rip them from our souls!!!!!!!!
He has already “surrendered” two pistols REGISTERED in New York. The third has been “transferred” to Florida, according to written reports. He’ll never see those two again.
Awesome news! I sure hope they remind him to do a better job at defending our rights his second time around.
Why does the term “fool’s errand” keep going through my mind?