Feb 1, 2003 | Uncategorized
“There was a time when coming out strongly for gun control could help get you elected,†reports PR Week. “But these days, due either to a tide of libertarianism or the increasing strength of the gun lobby, promising to take guns away from Americans will get you...
Jan 1, 2003 | Uncategorized
In Washington, D. C., the Cato Institute is crafting a legal challenge to the city’s gun control law, claiming that all law-abiding Americans have the right to defend themselves. “The Second Amendment provides an individual right for a person to bear arms, not a...
Nov 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
Michael S. Brown, an optometric physician from Vancouver, Washington, is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for November. In nominating Dr. Brown for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, pointed out...
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....
