SAF Announces 2025 Award Winners

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 6, 2025 — Throughout the fortieth annual Gun Rights Coverage Convention (GRPC), the Second Modification Basis (SAF) offered a number of prestigious awards to honor those that have gone above and past within the advocacy of our Second Modification rights over the previous yr. 

“We have been honored to current awards to these within the Second Modification house who’re deserving of such a distinction,” mentioned SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “This yr’s recipients are the people who find themselves on the entrance traces preventing for our civil liberties and who unapologetically help SAF’s work – whether or not within the courtroom, the lecture corridor or within the media. It was a privilege to share the stage with these award winners and to publicly acknowledge their achievements over the previous yr.”

This yr’s awards and recipients embody:

Golden Bowtie Award: Offered to individuals and/or organizations who’ve made vital contributions of time, expertise and treasure to SAF and its mission. 

Chris Cox,gun rights advocate and influential legislative strategist

Defender of Liberty: Awarded to people and/or organizations for his or her vital contributions to defending the Second Modification proper to maintain and bear arms.

Mike Harris, Director of Public Coverage, Gun Homeowners’ Motion League

Edward Paltzik, Litigation Counsel for SAF, Of Counsel to Houston-based agency Taylor Dykema

Bryan Strawser, Chairman of the Minnesota Gun Homeowners Caucus

Ava Flanell, Vice-President of Legislative Engagement, Colorado State Taking pictures Affiliation

Invoice of Rights: Acknowledges people who’ve made vital contributions to the preservation of civil liberties.

Andrew Bailey, Former Missouri Legal professional Basic, present Co-Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Scholar of the Yr: Offered to lecturers and different students who’ve made vital contributions to the historical past and that means of the person proper to maintain and bear arms.

David Kopel, Analysis Director of the Independence Institute, Adjunct Scholar on the Cato Institute and Adjunct Professor of Superior Constitutional Legislation, Denver College, Sturm School of Legislation.

Journalist of the Yr: Acknowledges journalists and media members for his or her contributions to reporting on gun rights and Second Modification points.

AWR Hawkins, Award-winning Second Modification columnist for Breitbart Information and the author/curator of Down Vary with AWR Hawkins.

“As in years previous, the 2025 award winners are the students, advocates and media members who’ve excelled in selling and educating the general public about our constitutional proper to maintain and bear arms,” mentioned SAF Govt Director Adam Kraut. “It was an honor to publicly acknowledge those that are such staunch advocates of our Second Modification rights throughout this yr’s GRPC.”

For extra info go to SAF.org.

The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, 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 rules of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By means of public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the fitting to maintain and bear arms.