October 2002

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....

Tammy Porter

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...

September 2002

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...

Michael P. Cronin

Captain Michael P. Cronin, founder and executive director of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations (CAPA), is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award winner for August. Cronin, a Vietnam war combat pilot and former prisoner of war, has been a leader...

August 2002

Black BATF agents want Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill held in contempt for failing to implement reforms ordered in a 5.9 million dollar settlement involving accusations of racial discrimination. The agents, in a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Washington,...