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BELLEVUE, WA --(Ammoland.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation today announced that GunBroker.com has joined SAF’s new corporate sponsorship program at the Bronze level, allying themselves with SAF in the 2012 battle to win back firearms rights one lawsuit at a time.

By their generous sponsorship, GunBroker.com demonstrates their strong support of the Second Amendment Foundation and SAF’s on-going efforts in defense of firearms civil rights. www.gunbroker.com

“The support of GunBroker.com for our mission to recognize and restore individual gun rights one lawsuit at a time leaves all of us at the Second Amendment Foundation deeply grateful. It is particularly important to offer special recognition to pioneering entrepreneurs such as GunBroker president Steve Urvan and their team when they have the courage and conviction to stand up for their principles in a concrete fashion,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb.

“The sponsorship commitment by GunBroker.com begins just as SAF is working harder than ever with over twenty five active lawsuits, and potentially thirty by the end of 2012,” Gottlieb added. “Most SAF members and supporters make contributions in the $10 to $25 range, and the substantial additional support of GunBroker.com makes a major difference in our efforts to win back firearms freedoms.”

“Each SAF triumph over unconstitutional and unreasonable restrictions on firearms rights is a building block towards fully restoring firearms freedoms,” Gottlieb continued.

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Gottlieb urged supporters of the Second Amendment Foundation and all persons concerned about individual firearms freedoms to support GunBroker.com and other organizations that support Second Amendment rights.

“It is easy to talk the talk. Not everybody has the courage to walk the walk,” concluded Gottlieb. “GunBroker.com has shown that courage with deeds and dollars in becoming a sponsor of the Second Amendment Foundation.”

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.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 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. In addition to the landmark McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court Case, SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; New Orleans; Chicago and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and numerous amicus briefs holding the Second Amendment as an individual right .

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Second Amendment Foundation

BELLEVUE, WA --(Ammoland.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation immediately filed an appeal following dismissal of its challenge to Illinois statutes that prohibit the carrying of loaded firearms outside the home for personal protection in the case of Moore v. Madigan.

The case is named for individual plaintiff Michael Moore, and defendant Lisa Madigan in her capacity as Illinois Attorney General. Joining Moore and SAF in the case are Illinois Carry, and three other private citizens, Charles Hooks, Peggy Fechter and Jon Maier.

The complaint was dismissed by Federal District Judge Sue E. Meyerscough, an Obama administration appointee who formerly served on the Illinois State Appellate Court.

In her ruling, Judge Meyerscough stated, “This Court finds that the Illinois Unlawful Use of Weapons’ and Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon’ statutes do not violate Plaintiffs’ Second Amendment rights. The United States Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit have recognized only a Second Amendment core individual right to bear arms inside the home. Further, even if this Court recognized a Second Amendment right to bear arms outside of the home and an interference with that right, the statutes nonetheless survive constitutional scrutiny.”

In response, SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb suggested the judge’s ruling defies common sense.

“We look forward to winning this important case on appeal even if it means going back to the United States Supreme Court for a third time,” Gottlieb stated. “The Second Amendment does not say, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed except outside your home or that it only applies inside your house. We don’t check our constitutional rights at the front door.”

Judge Myerscough denied SAF and its co-plaintiffs a preliminary injunction against two laws in Illinois that make it a crime to carry loaded firearms outside the home for personal protection. Instead, she supported the state’s motion to dismiss the case.

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.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 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. In addition to the landmark McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court Case, SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; New Orleans; Chicago and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and numerous amicus briefs holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

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