SAF: Success in 2025!

Last year proved very successful for the Second Amendment Foundation as the organization celebrated case victories and procedural wins in several cases supporting our right to keep and bear arms! Throughout 2025, SAF scored victories against a 18-20 handgun purchase ban, defeated the ban on carry in post offices and won a challenge in Illinois where a court ruled the FOID card was unconstitutional in the context of keeping a firearm at home for self-defense. In addition, SAF leveled three blows to California’s infringement on Second Amendment rights including non-resident carry permits, the one-gun-per-month law and a law prohibiting firearms advertising to minors. SAF also filed 13 new lawsuits and 16 amicus briefs, all to further defend, secure and restore the right to keep and bear arms for all Americans. For a full list of SAF’s active cases, visit our Legal Action page.

SAF Corporate Partner Updates

As the calendar flipped over to a new year, three new corporate partners joined SAF in the fight for our right to keep and bear arms. In addition, several current partners renewed their previous commitments to the organization.

SAF welcomed Q and CZ as new partners at the Gold level, and 2A Bourbon joined the organization as corporate partner at the Silver level. SAF partners that renewed their previous commitments include Magpul, Ammo.com, Armslist, Primary Arms and NASGW.

With more than 55 active cases, including five cert petitions before the Supreme Court, the continued support of members, donors and corporate partners allows SAF to ensure the Second Amendment isn’t relegated to a second-class right.

Should you have any questions or need more information about SAF’s corporate partner program, don’t hesitate to get in touch with SAF Senior Vice President Lauren Hill at lhill@saf.org.

En Banc Review Granted in New Jersey Sensitive Places Lawsuit

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to an en banc review of SAF’s challenge to New Jersey’s “sensitive places” firearms carry restrictions.

The case, Koons v. Attorney General of New Jersey, challenges laws New Jersey enacted in response to the 2022 landmark Supreme Court Bruen decision. The laws create multiple overlapping categories of so-called “sensitive places” where even those with a concealed carry permit are prohibited from carrying a firearm. The restrictions, in essence, cover almost every square inch of the state, severely limiting where residents can exercise their Second Amendment rights.

SAF filed a petition for en banc review in October 2025 after securing a partial victory in the case when a three-judge panel upheld the preliminary injunction SAF won at the district court for the carry of loaded, operable firearms in private vehicles and carry on private property open to the public without the owners express consent or signage. That panel decision did, however, uphold numerous provisions of New Jersey’s post-Bruen “sensitive places” law.

SAF Files Amicus Urging Supreme Court to Reverse Vampire Rule Decision

SAF filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Wolford v. Lopez, urging the Court to reverse the Ninth Circuit’s decision upholding Hawaii’s infamous “Vampire Rule.”

The Hawaii law, like similar statutes in California, New York and other states, declares virtually all private property open to the public — grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants and more — off-limits for lawful carry unless the property owner gives express permission. The result: permit holders who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights are effectively banished from most places.

“This is the post-Bruen rebellion in its purest form,” SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros said when the brief was filed. “Anti-gun states invented the ‘Vampire Rule’ for the sole purpose of nullifying the right to carry. They are not protecting private property rights – they are deliberately making public carry so burdensome that citizens will simply give up. The Ninth Circuit blessed this transparent end-run around the Second Amendment and only the Supreme Court can stop it.”

SAF is joined in the amicus by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Connecticut Citizens Defense League and Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.

If you would like more detailed information on any of SAF’s more than 50 active cases, visit saf.org where all current cases are listed under the Legal Action section.

Dates, Location Set for 2026 Gun Rights Policy Conference

The Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) planning committee is pleased to announce the 41st annual conference will take place Sept. 25 – 27 in Dallas at the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport hotel.

For more than four decades, GRPC has been the go-to event for Second Amendment advocates, bringing together the nation’s top 2A attorneys, activists and industry leaders to strategize and strengthen our fight for freedom.

Co-hosted by SAF and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, last year’s GRPC speakers included special operations veteran Christian Craighead; author and Ruby Ridge siege survivor Sara Weaver; Guns & Gadgets YouTube Channel host Jared Yanis; award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News AWR Hawkins; President, CEO and Owner of A Girl & A GunRobyn Sandoval, and many more.