FEBRUARY 1999

The Federal Bureau of Investigation blocked 11,584 sales of firearms during the first 41 days of NICS, the new, computerized criminal records instant check system, the Associated Press reported on January 11. According to AP, the FBI “took steps” to catch...

JANUARY 1999

In New York City early several City Council members, while displaying a cache of “lethal-looking weapons made of plastic,” according to THE NEW YORK TIMES, introduced a bill to outlaw all toy guns that look like the real thing. The December 10, 1998 move...

DECEMBER 1998

Anti-gunners in New York State lost no time in continuing their assault on gun rights. “Elected officials throughout New York State should be warned by the voters’ resounding repudiation of Senator Alphonse D’Amato, who remained in the grip of National Rifle...

NOVEMBER 1998

When the U. S. House of Representatives voted last month to begin an inquiry of impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the most anti-gun politician ever to serve in he Oval Office, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, expressed initial satisfaction....

OCTOBER 1998

As Capitol Hill buzzed with word of the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, the most anti-gun President in American history, Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia, Chairman of the House Task Force on Firearms and CCRKBA 1997 Legislator of the Year,...

SEPTEMBER 1998

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington State, with over 50 cosponsors, introduced S. Res. 264, to provide that the Senate designate October 8, 1998 as the Day of National Concern About Young People and Gun Violence, and authorize and request the President to issue a...