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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

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

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

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

Added Emergency Clause Could Doom Guv’s Altered Bill BELLEVUE, WA – Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to amend House Bill 1525 is a legislative trainwreck which raises the minimum age to purchase and possess certain firearms by young adults under age 21, many of whom already own such guns, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. Where Gov.

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding the Kentucky Legislature for overriding Governor Andy Beshear’s vetoes of two pro-Second Amendment bills, sending a message that the rights of law-abiding citizens outweigh the stroke of a prejudiced, partisan pen. Democrat Beshear had vetoed House Bill 78 and House Bill 312, following an anti-gun-rights party

BELLEVUE, WA – Saturday’s bloody New York subway attack by a machete-wielding man who reportedly called himself “Lucifer” provided further evidence that restrictive New York gun laws which disarm the public amounts to legislative insanity, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms declared. The suspect, identified as 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, was fatally shot by police. Officers had ordered

BELLEVUE, WA – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 312 was a deplorable act of sexism which leaves young women unarmed and vulnerable to brutal attack, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms declared. “While he claims to be a ‘different kind of Democrat,’ Gov. Beshear has revealed himself to be just one more anti-gun-rights politician

BELLEVUE, WA — The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a case challenging the National Firearms Act’s (NFA) tax and registration requirements for firearm suppressors. The case is known as George Peterson v. United States. CCRKBA’s amicus brief urges the high court to grant certiorari