The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the newly-introduced Second Amendment Guarantee Act (SAGA) by U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) “is a timely proposal that deserves passage.”
Congresswoman Tenney’s proposal, part of her detailed Second Amendment Plan, would prohibit the states from banning the manufacture, sale, importation, or possession of any rifle or shotgun that is lawfully permitted under federal law, according to a statement from her office. The measure is co-sponsored by Reps. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Nick Langworthy (R-NY).
Congresswoman Tenney Introduces the Second Amendment Guarantee Act to Defend New Yorkers 2A Rights.
January 15, 2025
Press Release
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Second Amendment Guarantee Act (SAGA) to ensure that states are prohibited from banning the manufacture, sale, importation, or possession of any rifle or shotgun that is lawfully permitted under federal law.
Additional cosponsors of this legislation include Representative Doug LaMalfa (CA-1) and Nick Langworthy (NY-23).
New York’s SAFE Act, signed into law under disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, prohibits law-abiding New Yorkers from purchasing, transferring, and owning certain firearms. If signed into law, this SAGA Act would nullify the SAFE Act and prevent New York and other states from passing unconstitutional gun bans.
“The Constitution clearly established our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The SAGA Act nullifies New York’s unconstitutional SAFE Act and prevents other states from enacting laws that violate the Second Amendment. This legislation upholds our country’s founding principle of protecting the rights of law-abiding Americans, even from liberal states with anti-gun policies,” said Congresswoman Tenney.
“No matter how hard radical Democrats in Albany attempt to limit lawful gun ownership, the New York Congressional delegation will stand firm to protect law-abiding New Yorkers and manufacturers in protecting their constitutional rights. I am proud to join Rep. Tenney and my New York colleagues in Congress to ensure these rights ‘shall not be infringed, and I will never back down in my fight to protect the Second Amendment,” said Congressman Langworthy.
“This important legislation comes at a time when a minority of states, run by anti-gun legislative majorities, have adopted or are trying to adopt bans on the most popular rifles and shotguns in the country,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “These prohibitions deprive citizens in those states of their Second Amendment rights under color of state law, which cannot be allowed.”
While Tenney’s legislation is described as a response to New York’s Draconian “SAFE” Act, which was signed into law by disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passage of SAGA would nullify bans in other states, and prevent consideration of such laws in the future.
“The Citizens Committee will encourage its members and supporters, and the tens of millions of honest American gun owners to energetically support the SAGA legislation,” Gottlieb said. “The time has come for our voices to be heard, on Capitol Hill and in the halls of every anti-gun state legislature and governor’s office in the country.
“Thanks to Congresswoman Tenney’s proposal,” he observed, “America’s gun owners can put anti-gun lawmakers on notice that we’re tired of being treated like second-class citizens, and that our rights are more important than their ill-advised crusade to disarm law-abiding Americans and erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights. Millions of people already own these firearms across the country and there is no good reason to penalize them for crimes they didn’t commit, and for merely choosing to exercise a right guaranteed by the Constitution.”
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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
