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November 2002
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...
Were Guns Scarce in Early America? Answering Bellesiles’s Claims
Were Guns Scarce in Early America? Answering Bellesiles's Claims "If this now flourishing City, and greatly improving Colony, is destroy'd and ruin'd, it will not be for want of Numbers of Inhabitants able to bear Arms in its defence. 'Tis computed...
AS ANTI-GUN DEMOCRATS EXPLOIT BELTWAY SNIPER CASE, GUN OWNERS PREPARE TO VOTE
BELLEVUE, WA -- The nation’s gun owners are “going ballistic†as the Nov. 5 elections loom, and they are focusing their attention on anti-gun Democrats, whose fingerprints are all over new proposals to further restrict gun rights in the wake...
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Bean Case This Wednesday: Court Will Define Second Amendment Rights Restoration Nationwide
Washington, D.C. - The nation's highest court will hear the Bean case on Wednesday, October 16, 2002. This case will decide whether people federally disqualified from firearm possession can ever regain the right to own a firearm through federal...
Niger Innis
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,...