Jul 12, 2005 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The decision by the Columbus, Ohio City Council to ban a wide range of semiautomatic firearms is a “public safety fraud” that will not prevent a single violent crime, and a disgraceful attempt to fool the public otherwise, the Citizens...
Jul 7, 2005 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is urging President George Bush to appoint an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court who is “committed to a strict individual rights interpretation of the Second...
Jul 1, 2005 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Richard A. Pearson, Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA), is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for July.  In nominating Pearson for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said that, “as the gun rights...
Jul 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month, stated recently that the constitutional right of Americans to own firearms is as important as their rights to speech and religion. Rice said during a CNN “Larry King Live†interview...
Jun 30, 2005 | News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “We congratulate whole-heartedly the United States House of Representatives, and especially Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana and the House leadership, for its whopping 259-161 vote today to overturn DC’s gun laws,” John Michael...
Jun 30, 2005 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The mayor of Washington, D.C. evidently considers citizens in the District of Columbia to be mere “subjects” who should not be able to exercise their right of self-defense, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms...
Jun 29, 2005 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is urging Ohio gun rights activists to attend a hearing Thursday afternoon in Columbus on a proposal to ban so-called “assault weapons.” “Columbus has already lost...
Jun 28, 2005 | News Releases
WASHINGTON, June 28 — If District of Columbia officials persist in their attempt to thwart revision of D.C. gun laws, Congress ought to consider recision of D.C. home rule, John Michael Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to...
Jun 17, 2005 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The U.S. House of Representatives acted properly this week to overwhelmingly reject an amendment to a spending bill that would have banned the export of .50-caliber rifles, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). The...
Jun 14, 2005 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – By insisting that a new federal law that allows retired police officers to carry concealed handguns is “essentially dangerous,” a Maryland anti-gun crusader has insulted men and women in law enforcement and should immediately apologize,...
