Mar 8, 2005 | News Releases
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) is putting his anti-gun spin on a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on firearms purchases by suspected terrorists during a five-month period last year to push his gun control agenda, the Citizens Committee for the...
Mar 1, 2005 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Maryland State Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr. is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for March. According to CCRKBA Public Affairs Director John Michael Snyder, “In Maryland, the so-called ‘Free State,’ gun owners generally have a tough time from the...
Mar 1, 2005 | News Releases
The arrest of a Springfield, IL anti-gun activist by police who allegedly found an illegal handgun and drugs in her home during a contested search prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to bid Annette “Flirty” Stevens a...
Mar 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
During his Senate confirmation hearings in January, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he favors extending the expired federal so-called “assault weapons ban.†Congress allowed the ban on the importation and manufacture of certain semiautomatic firearms and...
Feb 28, 2005 | News Releases
San Francisco gun banners would put residents at the mercy of thugs and drug dealers, and the proof lies just across the bay in Oakland, where a local resident there has had to defend himself for trying to help rid his neighborhood of criminals. The Citizens Committee...
Feb 22, 2005 | News Releases
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today condemned a sensational report on CNN that not only alerts potential terrorists on possible misuses of .50-caliber sporting rifles, but also literally provides a “road map” on how to...
Feb 1, 2005 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Nathan Tabor of Kernersville, NC is the February recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award.  CCRKBA Public Affairs Director John Michael Snyder noted that, “During this time of continuing political and legislative conflict regarding the...
Feb 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
The average American owns 1.7 guns, according to a Gallup Poll released early last month, and the average gun owner possesses 4.4 firearms. One out of three American women say they own a gun, while 40 percent of American adults generally say they own a gun. Fiftythree...
Jan 19, 2005 | News Releases
A bill submitted to the Maryland General Assembly that would add 20 years to a criminal’s prison sentence if he uses a so-called “assault rifle” when committing a violent crime amounts to “frivolous pandering to anti-gun extremism,” the...
Jan 12, 2005 | News Releases
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is repackaging his “same old extremism” as a new plan to strip law-abiding citizens of their gun rights, and penalize retailers for crimes committed by somebody else, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms...
