March 2005

During his Senate confirmation hearings in January, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he favors extending the expired federal so-called “assault weapons ban.” Congress allowed the ban on the importation and manufacture of certain semiautomatic firearms and...

February 2005

The average American owns 1.7 guns, according to a Gallup Poll released early last month, and the average gun owner possesses 4.4 firearms. One out of three American women say they own a gun, while 40 percent of American adults generally say they own a gun. Fiftythree...

January 2005

According to a Gallup Poll taken just before the national elections in November, and shortly after expiration of the so-called “ban” on so-called “assault weapons” in September,” slightly more than half of Americans (54 percent) said laws covering the sale...

December 2004

Nationally syndicated personal advice columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers noted recently she received a letter from a parent whose 10-year old son came home from visiting a neighbor but that there was a “problem.” The youngster was “all excited with tales of seeing...

November 2004

In California, CCRKBA termed state Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s latest gun control scheme a “fanatic fantasy.” Lockyer wants to require all handgun ammunition sold in the Golden State to be “branded” with a microscopic code that ostensibly would help...