The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is an educational- and legal-defense organization which describes its mission as “promoting a better understanding about our constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, SAF carries on many educational- and legal-action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun-control debate.”
SAF was founded in 1974 by Alan Gottlieb, and as of 2012 it has over 650,000 members.
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