Arrest of alleged Russian agent Maria Butina puts spotlight on Bellevue’s Second Amendment Foundation

The photo posted online in 2013 of the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb, wearing a pinstripe suit and his signature bow tie, might look like any random snapshot from a formal networking dinner.

Except this photo was taken in Moscow.  And it includes Maria Butina, a Russian national arrested this week on allegations of being an unregistered foreign agent.

Butina’s arrest has put the spotlight on Gottlieb and others in America’s gun-rights community for their interactions with the Russian citizen and onetime