Socialist Rifle Association

The Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) is a socialist gun rights advocacy organization based in the United States. The group describes itself as “an education and advocacy organization dedicated to providing marginalized communities and the working class with the education, the skills, and the advocates necessary to be effectively armed for self and community defense.”

The organization does not explicitly endorse the Second Amendment, arguing that its historical application was intertwined with racially discriminatory gun control. The SRA has stated that “enshrinement of the Second Amendment also came gun control—that is to say, gun control for people of color and Indigenous people. These laws were violently upheld via slave patrols, among other mechanisms. The same slave patrols eventually became the American police force that upheld the Black Codes, further disenfranchising the rights of people of color to keep and bear arms, among many other rights.”