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December 2001
Inmates serving time in state prisons during 1997 said they purchased 8.3 percent of their guns from retail stores, 3.8 percent at pawn shops, one percent at a flea market, 0.7 percent at gun shows, 39.6 percent from family or friends, and 39.2...
Joe Barton
Congressman Joe Barton of Texas is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights De-fender of the Month Award for December. John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said Bar-ton, “truly distinguished himself recently by proposing...
CCRKBA LAUDS VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER FOR ‘GETTING CLOSER TO THE FACTS’
BELLEVUE, WA. - The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today lauded the Violence Policy Center's (VPC) most recent study on child victims of gun violence for its use of honest statistics in reaching its conclusion. The...
Trial Begins in Lawsuit to Allow Carrying of Firearms for Self-Protection
The lawsuit to overturn the unconstitutional laws barring self-defense through legal concealed carry of firearms by law-abiding adults begins on Thursday, November 29th at 10:30 AM in the Common Pleas Court in Hamilton County, Ohio. The lawsuit...
‘TASERS’ NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FIREARMS AS ANSWER TO COCKPIT SECURITY, SAYS CCRKBA
BELLEVUE, WA. - The failure of Seattle, WA police to stop a knife-wielding suspect with shots from two "Taser" electric guns in an incident that turned deadly Nov. 26 underscores the necessity for airline pilots to be allowed to carry handguns to...