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Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS) was a United States women's
gun rights The right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of life, liberty, and property. The purpose of gun rights is for self-defense, including securi ...
advocacy group that supported gun use for
self defense Self-defense (self-defence primarily in Commonwealth English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm. The use of the right of self-defense as a legal justification for the use of force in ...
and empowerment. According to a 2003 ''
Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'' article, SAS was founded in December 1999 by five women who were "outraged" by the
Million Mom March The Million Mom March was a rally held on Mother's Day, May 14, 2000 in the Washington, D.C. National Mall by the Million Mom March organization to call for stricter gun control. The march reportedly drew an estimated attendance of 500,000 to 75 ...
. The national organization closed in 2015, though individual state chapters continue to operate independently.


See also

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Gun politics in the US Gun politics within American politics is defined by two primary opposing ideologies about civilian gun ownership. Those who advocate for gun control support increased regulation of gun ownership; those who advocate for gun rights oppose incre ...
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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the Right to keep and bear arms in the United States, right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along with nine other articles of the Un ...


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Second Amendment Sisters Records at the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations Gun rights advocacy groups in the United States Organizations established in 1999 Organizations disestablished in 2015 Women's political advocacy groups in the United States 1999 establishments in the United States 2015 disestablishments in the United States