Second Amendment Sisters

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Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS) is a non-partisan women's advocacy group in the United States dedicated to the protection of gun rights, specifically for the purpose of self defense. It is an all-volunteer 501(c)(4) non-profit organization based in Texas, with chapters nationwide.

SAS was founded in January 2000 by five ordinary women from around the country, in response to the media portrayal that the Million Mom March spoke for all women with regard to firearms rights. Using the Internet, these women and a handful of other volunteers staged a counter-rally in Washington, DC, on Mother's Day, May 13, 2000. In the months preceding these events, the media regularly called upon SAS to represent the equal counterpoint to the Million Mom March in print, radio and television, including a two hour televised Good Morning America town hall meeting from the White House on the Saturday before. On March 18, 2008, SAS organized the rally in support of Dick Anthony Heller's right to keep an operable handgun for self-protection in his home subject of the United States Supreme Court hearing of DC v. Heller in Washington, DC.

SAS interprets the Second Amendment as recognizing the pre-existing natural right of individuals to bear arms as tools of self-defense, and promotes gun safety and marksmanship among their members. They focus on community outreach, women's firearm shoots, women's personal safety training, and political advocacy. Citing FBI crime statistics, they assert firearms are the only reasonable means of self-protection, especially for women, people of short stature, people with disabilities, and the elderly.

Second Amendment Sisters has a featured column in Gun Week. The group's slogan is "Self defense is a basic human right."

v t e Gun interest groups in the U.S.

Pro-gun rights	Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Gun Owners' Action League Gun Owners of America Handgun Club of America Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Law Enforcement Alliance of America Liberty Belles National Association for Gun Rights National Rifle Association National Shooting Sports Foundation Pink Pistols Saint Gabriel Possenti Society Second Amendment Foundation Second Amendment Sisters Students for Concealed Carry on Campus

Pro-gun control	American Academy of Pediatrics Americans for Responsible Solutions Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence Joyce Foundation Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence League of Women Voters Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America National Gun Victims Action Council Stop Handgun Violence Violence Policy Center

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