CCRKBA APPLAUDS FOUR VA PROSECUTORS FOR REFUSING TO ENFORCE GUN BAN
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding the decision by at least four county prosecutors in Virginia to not enforce the ban on so-called “assault firearms” and original capacity magazines, signed into law by Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger Prosecutors in Powhatan, Pulaski, Smyth and Spotsylvania counties say the ban violates the Second Amendment.
GUNS & GADGETS TO SPONSOR NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE HAPPY HOUR
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has announced the happy hour sponsor for the upcoming New England Firearms Advocacy Conference is Jared Yanis from Guns & Gadgets, who has pledged his support by funding the post-conference event. The New England FAC is scheduled this Saturday, May 30 and there’s still time to get tickets!
BERKELEY TOWNSHIP BECOMES 23rd N.J. MUNICIPALITY TO REFUND CCW FEE
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is cheering the decision by the Town Council of Berkeley Township (also known as Bayville) for becoming the 23rd municipality in New Jersey to rebate a portion of the state-mandated carry permit fee to Garden State gun owners. This week, the council voted to refund $100 of the
NEW ENGLAND FIREARMS ADVOCACY CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has announced the speakers for the inaugural Firearms Advocacy Conference, scheduled for Saturday, May 30 at Castle of Knights, 1599 Memorial Dr., Chicopee, Mass. The New England FAC is being sponsored by the United States Concealed Carry Association. New England’s own Charlie Cook, host of Riding Shotgun With
CCRKBA HAILS ACTIONS OF ARMED CITIZEN IN STOPPING CAMBRIDGE GUNMAN
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing the actions of an armed private citizen—described as a Marine Corps veteran—in bringing down a gunman who opened fire Monday on motorists in Cambridge, Mass. “This armed citizen has so far not been identified publicly by the media,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “but he is
CCRKBA: ‘JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWSUIT AGAINST DENVER GUN BAN LONG OVERDUE’
BELLEVUE, WA – The Justice Department’s lawsuit against the City of Denver, Colorado’s long-standing banon so-called “assault weapons” is long overdue, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Armssaid. “The time has come for local governments to get a reality check about infringing on the Second Amendmentrights of their constituents,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “For too long, state
CCRKBA AMICUS BRIEF SUPPORTS SAILOR CONVICTED OF GUN CRIMES BY BIDEN ATF
BELLEVUE, WA – “The facts of this case are outrageous,” says an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in support of a decorated Navy veteran convicted of crimes he really didn’t commit, but was prosecuted by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Patrick “Tate”
CCRKBA CONGRATULATES ROBERT CEKADA AS NEW HEAD OF ATF
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms congratulates Robert Cekada on his Senate confirmation as the new director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and for his quick signing of a package of proposed rule changes designed to reverse confusing regulations adopted during the Biden administration. Cekada, a career law
CCRKBA RIPS CNN COMMENTATOR’S CALL FOR GUN CONTROL AFTER ATTACK
BELLEVUE, WA – It didn’t take long for someone to call for more gun control after Saturday night’s foiled attack on President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association gala, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms calls it “nonsense" from someone who didn’t do their homework. “In an analysis, CNN’s Brian Stelter insinuated that nobody will
CCRKBA: BRADY ERASES SWALWELL FROM WEBSITE, BUT TAINT REMAINS
BELLEVUE, WA – The anti-gun-rights Brady group, which previously endorsed Eric Swalwell for Congress and honored him as a guest speaker at a 2024 gala awards event—the same night he allegedly assaulted his female aide—has erased his name from its website and a video of the event has reportedly vanished from its YouTube page, but the taint of their past association