BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is delighted to announce the Arizona Citizens Defense League is now officially a state affiliate organization.
Founded in 2005, AzCDL literally “hit the ground running” 20 years ago, and that much was confirmed in 2006 when the organization received its first “Grassroots Organization of the Year” award from CCRKBA during that year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference. Over the next two decades, AzCDL has earned the award in 2010 and 2018, while individually, AzCDL Treasurer Fredrick Dahnke has twice been recognized as the Grassroots Activist of the Year, in 2008 and 2015, and the late Dave Kopp, who was the league’s president at the time, was honored with the 2019 Defender of Liberty Award by CCRKBA, during the annual Gun Rights conference.
“I can really only begin to scratch the surface of how I feel about the AzCDL and its accomplishments over the past twenty years,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It gives me great pride and encouragement that the League has officially joined our family as a state affiliate, and I look forward to continuing what has become a great association with a remarkable grassroots organization.”
Gottlieb pointed to the AzCDL message on its website to underscore what makes the League a great organization and such a welcome addition to CCRKBA’s growing list of affiliate organizations: “AzCDL is where grassroots activists take a stand, working at the Arizona legislature to stop bad bills, get pro-rights bills enacted, and defending those laws in court.” Arizona gun owners can visit the website page here to learn about the different levels of membership.
“Grassroots activism is, and always has been, at the core of CCRKBA’s very existence,” Gottlieb observed. “For more than 50 years, the Committee has strived, often in the background, to promote and expand the grassroots, because it is through activism—people working with other people—that we have achieved so much within the Second Amendment movement.
“Great things typically have small beginnings,” he added, “and it has always been at the grassroots level where those small beginnings happen. The work of the AzCDL is a text book example of how to do it right. We’re proud to have them on board as a new affiliate organization.”
For information on becoming a CCRKBA affiliate organization, contact David Williamson at (425-454-4911) or send a message to info@ccrkba.org