BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 11, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed an amicus transient with the Supreme Court docket urging the excessive courtroom to listen to a gun rights restoration case.
The transient was filed in assist of Melynda Vincent’s petition for writ of certiorari in Vincent v. Bondi. Vincent, a single mom dwelling in Utah, was convicted of financial institution fraud 17 years in the past for writing a nasty examine within the quantity of $498 to a grocery retailer. Since that non-violent felony conviction, she has been unable to personal a firearm to guard herself or her household.
“We predict it’s time for the Supreme Court docket to finish the lifetime prohibition from proudly owning weapons for folks convicted of a non-violent crime,” mentioned SAF Director of Authorized Operations Invoice Sack. “The historical past and custom of firearm regulation within the nation helps disarming solely these people whose convictions point out they’re a risk to themselves or society. Disarming a single mom for a white-collar crime is as unconstitutional as it’s nonsensical.”
Becoming a member of SAF within the transient are the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, Firearms Coverage Coalition and FPC Motion Basis.
“Like numerous others, Ms. Vincent’s non-violent conviction offers no impression that she is a hazard to society, and she or he deserves the proper to defend her household similar to different peaceful residents,” mentioned SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Writing a single dangerous examine is just not harmful conduct that ought to preclude anybody from the power to guard themselves. We respectfully ask the Supreme Court docket to listen to this case so Ms. Vincent, and hundreds like her throughout the U.S., regain their Second Modification rights.”
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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 america 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 public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the proper to maintain and bear arms.
