Thursday, February 19, 2026
SAF Files Amicus Brief Defending Gun Owners’ Privacy - Ammoland.com
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in support of defendant SIG SAUER’s motion for reconsideration in Hall v. Sig Sauer, Inc., a product liability case in which plaintiffs seek to force disclosure of gun owners’ identities without their consent.
SIG SAUER was ordered to divulge the identities of some of its customers to the Plaintiffs in the case as part of the discovery process and seeks reconsideration of that order. SAF is joined in the brief by the National Rifle Association.
“The Second Amendment has always protected not just the right to keep and bear arms, but the privacy necessary to exercise that right without fear of government-compelled exposure or social ostracism,” said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros. “Our history and tradition confirm that Americans reasonably expect their status as gun owners to remain private. Forcing a manufacturer to divulge customer identities in civil litigation – without consent or adequate safeguards – violates that long-standing expectation and infringes the right itself. We urge the Court to reconsider and protect gun owners’ privacy.”
This dispute is important to SAF as it threatens the privacy of law-abiding Americans who contact manufacturers for assistance with their firearms, possibly chilling them from seeking help with potential safety issues and exposing them to unwanted scrutiny. Moreover, it presented an excellent opportunity to assist in the development of privacy in gun ownership as an aspect of the Second Amendment right.
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VA Restores Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights After Decades of Unconstitutional Disarmament - Ammoland.com
For more than 30 years, American veterans who bravely defended our freedoms were stripped of their own Second Amendment rights — not through any crime, not by a judge’s order, and not because they were a danger to anyone — but simply because they needed help managing their VA benefits under a fiduciary program. That changed on February 17, 2026, when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) formally ended this unconstitutional practice.
A Unilateral Bureaucratic Gun Ban Ends
Under decades-old policy, veterans who lacked the ability to manage their financial affairs — often due to service-related disabilities — were automatically reported by the VA to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as “prohibited persons.” This reporting effectively barred them from legally owning or purchasing firearms.
In its official announcement, the VA acknowledged that this practice violated both the Gun Control Act and the constitutional rights of veterans, because the department was making life-altering disability determinations without any judicial or quasi-judicial due process — a fundamental right in American law.
Effective immediately, the VA will no longer report veterans to NICS solely because they need fiduciary help, and it is working with the FBI to remove veterans’ names that were improperly submitted in the past.
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