The Sunday after he decided to accept a federal plea offer, in which he agreed to plead guilty to one count of selling ammunition to a prohibited person, Pastor Russell Fincher submitted his resignation to the board of his small Oklahoma church, but the board refused to accept his resignation. “You didn’t change,” he recalls

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 4, 2026 — In a closely watched and reported-on case by the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Investigative Journalism Project editor Lee Williams, Patrick “Tate” Adamiak today has been issued a pardon by President Donald Trump. Adamiak was wrongfully arrested, charged and convicted of illegally possessing a toy machinegun after Biden-era Bureau

Former U.S. Navy sailor Patrick “Tate” Adamiak has been pardoned by President Donald J. Trump—effective immediately. He was one of several people pardoned by President Trump Friday. Adamiak, who still had 16 years left to serve of his 20-year federal prison sentence, is now a free man. He plans to continue his legal fight against

California’s state legislature employs some of the busiest and most creative anti-gun staffers in the world, who operate in an atmosphere of nearly complete permissiveness. Whatever lunacy these well-schooled goons propose has an extremely high likelihood of becoming state law, especially if it targets guns or shaves a chunk off of the Second Amendment protections

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 2, 2026 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a reply brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Novotny v. Moore, SAF’s challenge to Maryland’s so-called “sensitive places” carry ban. In May, SAF petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s ultra-restrictive “sensitive

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 2, 2026 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed an amicus brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Pratt v. Westbrook, a case challenging subjective carry permit denials. SAF is joined in the brief by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus,

Just look at the some of the featured speakers who are coming to Dallas in 25 days for the Second Amendment Foundation’s Gun Rights Policy Conference. United States District Judge Roger T. Benitez (Ret.), SAF’s 2026 Keynote Speaker Robert Cekada, ATF Director Brandon Herrera, “The AK Guy” and political candidate Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Aug. 28, 2026 — Following closely on the heels of celebrating its 52nd anniversary, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed their opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in cases challenging assault weapons bans in Cook County, Illinois and Connecticut. On June 30, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two

Jeffrey R. Bodell—the ATF Firearms Enforcement Officer responsible for imprisoning Patrick “Tate” Adamiak for 20 years by claiming that a toy and legal semi-automatic pistols were machineguns and that two inert RPGs were actually destructive devices—is still working for the ATF and will soon testify under oath about firearms seized in other criminal cases. Bodell

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Aug. 26, 2026 — Today, Wednesday, Aug. 26, marks exactly 52 years of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) leading the charge in defending, securing and restoring the constitutional rights of Americans. Founded in 1974 by Alan M. Gottlieb, who now serves as the organization’s Executive Vice President, SAF remains the leader of