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...

December 2004

Nationally syndicated personal advice columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers noted recently she received a letter from a parent whose 10-year old son came home from visiting a neighbor but that there was a “problem.” The youngster was “all excited with tales of seeing...

November 2004

In California, CCRKBA termed state Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s latest gun control scheme a “fanatic fantasy.” Lockyer wants to require all handgun ammunition sold in the Golden State to be “branded” with a microscopic code that ostensibly would help...

October 2004

“Ten years of deception finally is over,” declared CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb early last month as the decade-old ban on production of certain semiautomatic firearms came to an end. Passed in 1994, the law did not ban possession of so-called “assault...

September 2004

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did the right thing when he vetoed a so-called “gun safety education” bill because of its potential to allow anti-gun propaganda to be taught in the guise of public safety, CCRKBA stated. The bill, SB1177 “was an attempt to...