Nov 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
A federal jury in Texas last month convicted Timothy Emerson of three counts of possessing a firearm. He was charged in 1998 after buying a pistol while under a restraining order during a divorce proceeding. U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings originally dismissed the...
Oct 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), is October’s recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award. “It gives me great pleasure to nominate Niger for this Award,†said John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public...
Oct 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
The White House plans to ask Congress to consider moving BATF from the Treasury Department to the Justice Department, according to The Washington Post. The proposal follows the Bush Administration’s decision to transfer two other large Treasury agencies, the U.S....
Sep 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
An armed citizen who became a hero when she tried to intervene in the brutal slaying of a King County, WA sheriff ’s deputy has received the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for September. Tammy Porter of Richland, WA was nominated for the honor by Dave...
Sep 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
Nationally-syndicated columnist Jay Ambrose, director of Editorial Policy for Scripps Howard Newspapers, commented recently on the Capitol Hill drive by Sens. John Mc- Cain of Arizona and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and others to impose severe restrictions on gun...