May 2005

CCRKBA announced its opposition to H.R. 1423, the proposed Childproof Handgun Act of 2005, by Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey and eight original cosponsors. The bill would ban the manufacture, sale, delivery and transfer of handguns that cannot be personalized. It...

April 2005

The anti-gun New Jersey-New York U.S. Senate gang of four got together recently in introducing a bill to ban a single model handgun. Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Jon Corzine of New Jersey and Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton of New York introduced S. 527 to ban...

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...