April 2004

After New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told New York Magazine that gun lobby leaders’ pro-gun remarks were “reprehensible,” Alan M. Gottlieb, Chairman of CCRKBA and Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), announced that the two groups have...

March 2004

In Annapolis, Maryland, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. said early last month that he opposes a statewide ban on the sale of so-called “assaultstyle” firearms. This, according to Tim Craig of The Washington Post, sets up a showdown with Democratic leaders in the...

February 2004

In Ohio, after CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb urged Gov. Bob Taft to sign a concealed carry measure passed by the state legislature, Taft did so. For years, CCRKBA worked with Ohioans for Concealed Carry to produce a CCW measure acceptable to both the legislature...

January 2004

introduced H.R. 3614, which would provide that NICS preserve all records of the system with respect to individuals named in the Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization file who attempt to purchase firearms and the prospective transaction until the system has provided...

December 2003

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (MA) introduced S. 1774, to repeal the sunset provisions of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988, thus making permanent the ban on so-called plastic firearms, or guns that can’t be detected by X-ray machines or metal detectors. Referred to...