Editing Second Amendment Sisters

{{short description|American women's gun rights advocacy organization}}
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'''Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.''' '''(SAS)''' was a United States women's [[Gun politics in the United States|gun rights]] advocacy group that supported gun use for [[self-defense|self defense]] and empowerment. According to a 2003 ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' article, SAS was founded in December 1999 by five women who were "outraged" by the [[Million Mom March]].<ref name=Mehren030108>{{cite news |last=Mehren |first=Elizabeth |date=January 8, 2003 |title=Campus Feminism With a Twist -- and a .22 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-18-na-holyoke18-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=January 30, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119033934/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/18/nation/na-holyoke18 |archive-date=January 19, 2012 }}</ref> The national organization closed in 2015, though individual state chapters continue to operate independently.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/machaptersas/|title=MA Chapter of Second Amendment Sisters {{!}} Facebook|website=www.facebook.com|access-date=2016-12-06}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Gun politics in the US]]
*[[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://aspace.fivecolleges.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/31911 Second Amendment Sisters Records at the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections] 

[[Category:501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations]]
[[Category:Gun rights advocacy groups in the United States]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1999]]
[[Category:Organizations disestablished in 2015]]
[[Category:Women's political advocacy groups in the United States]]
[[Category:1999 establishments in the United States]]
[[Category:2015 disestablishments in the United States]]