{"id":1700,"date":"2014-05-13T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/05\/13\/saf-wins-in-arkansas\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:04","slug":"saf-wins-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"SAF Wins In Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11896,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2013\\\/11\\\/saf-files-suit-in-arkansas-challenging.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11897,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/saf.org\\\/?p=3607&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11898,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/tackiness.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250524201112\\\/https:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/tackiness.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:26:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 21:00:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 21:00:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11899,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guns.com\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/01\\\/gottlieb-gun-rights-lobby-needs-to-lead-not-follow-on-background-checks-video&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170208234124\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.guns.com\\\/2014\\\/05\\\/01\\\/gottlieb-gun-rights-lobby-needs-to-lead-not-follow-on-background-checks-video\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 07:26:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 21:00:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 21:00:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Second Amendment Foundation has won another lawsuit challenging restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of permanent legal residents. This time it was <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/saf-files-suit-in-arkansas-challenging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a challenge against the state of Arkansas&#8217; restriction of concealed carry permits<\/a> to US citizens only.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, these type of cases are low hanging fruit insomuch as alienage is a suspect class and strict scrutiny must be applied when a fundamental right involving a suspect class is involved. That said, they need to challenged and the Second Amendment Foundation is well-placed to do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/saf.org\/?p=3607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The release from SAF is below<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/tackiness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, I wish the Second Amendment Foundation would stick to the courts and that the NRA-ILA would stick to legislatures. Those are the arenas in which they each do their best. By doing so, it would best for gun rights and would avoid what I consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guns.com\/2014\/05\/01\/gottlieb-gun-rights-lobby-needs-to-lead-not-follow-on-background-checks-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foolish gestures like this one on background checks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>SAF WINS PERMANENT INJUNCTION IN CHALLENGE TO ARKANSAS CCW LAW<\/p>\n<p>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 The Second Amendment Foundation has won a significant victory on behalf of legal resident aliens in Arkansas, with a federal district court there declaring the state\u2019s citizen-only concealed carry licensing law unconstitutional, and granting a permanent injunction against its enforcement on behalf of a man named Martin Pot (pronounced Pote), a citizen of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks, for the Western District of Arkansas, handed down the ruling. He ordered the state to pay SAF $10,000 in attorney\u2019s fees and court costs of $726.41. SAF and Mr. Pot were represented by attorney David Sigale of Glen Ellyn, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed last November, challenged the Arkansas statute because it \u201ccompletely prohibits resident legal aliens from the concealed carry of guns, in public, for the purpose of self-defense. Colonel Stan Witt, director of the Arkansas State Police, was named as the defendant in his official capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another victory in our effort to expand Second Amendment protections in the United States,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cMr. Pot is a law-abiding resident of Eureka Springs, and has been so since 1986. He is self-employed and is a productive member of the community, with an American-born wife and family. He came here almost 30 years ago, met and married his wife, and has many solid connections in his community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Arkansas statute allowed Pot to possess a firearm only in his home, on his property or \u2013 under certain circumstances \u2013 while on a \u201cjourney,\u201d he was prohibited from obtaining a concealed carry permit because he is not a citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case is not unique,\u201d Gottlieb noted. \u201cSAF has successfully challenged other state laws, in New Mexico, Washington, Nebraska and Massachusetts. Legal resident aliens should not be penalized at the expense of their self-defense rights. This was a good outcome to a case that should help lots of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another case where SAF is winning firearms freedom one lawsuit at a time,\u201d he concluded.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Amendment Foundation has won another lawsuit challenging restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of permanent legal residents.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2625,2578,2626,384],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arkansas","tag-legal-resident-aliens","tag-pot-v-witt","tag-second-amendment-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9863,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}