BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 24, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) introduced right this moment the Washington State Legal professional Basic’s Workplace has signed an settlement ending a three-year investigation which revealed no wrongdoing by SAF or its personnel, in trade for the inspiration’s withdrawal of its federal civil rights lawsuit in opposition to the AG’s workplace, former Legal professional Basic Bob Ferguson and different defendants.
The settlement contains withdrawal of a pending Public Information Act request by SAF for data from the Legal professional Basic’s workplace, whereas the AG’s Client Safety Division will shut its investigation of SAF and different plaintiffs. Whereas the settlement doesn’t award charges or different prices to both facet, SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb says this settlement quantities to a “vindication of our place that SAF, its companions and personnel did nothing incorrect.”
“This investigation, launched by Bob Ferguson in an effort to discredit our work on behalf of gun homeowners and the Second Modification, was a politically motivated authorized fishing expedition,” Gottlieb declared triumphantly. “Ferguson’s witch hunt wasted three years of our time and value us hundreds of man hours and greater than $200,000. We’re satisfied this occurred as a result of he’s a loyal anti-gun rights politician and we’re a nationwide group whose mission is to guard and defend the Second Modification.”
SAF was focused together with its sister group, the Residents Committee for the Proper to Hold and Bear Arms, Merril Mail Advertising and marketing, the Middle for the Protection of Free Enterprise, the Service Bureau Affiliation and Liberty Park Press, for which Gottlieb is writer.
“We’re glad that is over,” Gottlieb noticed, “however we’re not completely satisfied that Ferguson is just not held chargeable for the injury he did. It’s our honest hope that no future legal professional basic in Washington state will conduct a politically motivated assault below coloration of regulation in opposition to any non-profit group with which she or he has a elementary philosophical disagreement.”
Beneath the settlement, the Washington Legal professional Basic won’t pursue any authorized motion primarily based on the investigation. Gottlieb stated that is hardly stunning, “since they couldn’t discover any wrongdoing.”
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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 basic 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 public schooling initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the best to maintain and bear arms.
