BELLEVUE, Wash. — Feb. 17, 2026 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) has filed an amicus transient with the U.S. District Court docket for the Center District of Pennsylvania in assist of defendant SIG SAUER’s movement for reconsideration in Corridor v. Sig Sauer, Inc., a product legal responsibility case during which plaintiffs search to pressure disclosure of gun house owners’ identities with out their consent.
SIG SAUER was ordered to expose the identities of a few of its clients to the Plaintiffs within the case as a part of the invention course of and seeks reconsideration of that order. SAF is joined within the transient by the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation.
“The Second Modification has at all times protected not simply the suitable to maintain and bear arms, however the privateness essential to train that proper with out worry of government-compelled publicity or social ostracism,” mentioned SAF Director of Authorized Analysis and Training Kostas Moros. “Our historical past and custom verify that Individuals moderately anticipate their standing as gun house owners to stay non-public. Forcing a producer to expose buyer identities in civil litigation – with out consent or ample safeguards – violates that long-standing expectation and infringes the suitable itself. We urge the Court docket to rethink and shield gun house owners’ privateness.”
This dispute is necessary to SAF because it threatens the privateness of law-abiding Individuals who contact producers for help with their firearms, presumably chilling them from looking for assist with potential issues of safety and exposing them to undesirable scrutiny. Furthermore, it introduced a wonderful alternative to help within the growth of privateness in gun possession as a facet of the Second Modification proper.
“We fought this similar problem just lately in our personal lawsuits, and identical to we argued in these instances, there’s completely no want handy over a listing of gun house owners’ names to the federal government,” mentioned SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “SAF is dedicated to making sure that exercising this elementary proper doesn’t come at the price of pressured disclosure to 3rd events. This transient defends the privateness that has at all times been inherent in the suitable to maintain and bear arms.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt schooling, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the elemental rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of the USA Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. Via public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the suitable to maintain and bear arms.
