Apr 11, 2005 | News Releases
An exposé by USAToday on the Clinton-era Community Oriented Policing Services (‘COPS’) project shows the program wasted millions of dollars, never put the promised 100,000 new police on the streets, and has not been a panacea to crime. The COPS program was...
Apr 7, 2005 | News Releases
The Milwaukee, Wis. District Attorney’s office “made the right call” in deciding not to file any charges against a 64-year-old man who fatally shot one of five youths who attacked him in a gas station April 3, the Citizens Committee for the Right to...
Apr 7, 2005 | News Releases
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today applauded New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson for signing legislation that expands his state’s concealed carry law, allowing more citizens to legally arm themselves for personal protection....
Apr 1, 2005 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
In recent months, a number of writers and commentators have put forth the view that, in view of last November’s election results, the political and legislative battle for the individual Second Amendment civil right to keep and bear arms is all but won.  That,...
Apr 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
The anti-gun New Jersey-New York U.S. Senate gang of four got together recently in introducing a bill to ban a single model handgun. Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Jon Corzine of New Jersey and Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton of New York introduced S. 527 to ban...
Mar 28, 2005 | News Releases
Disclosure that the Chicago, Ill. Police department has apparently been “experimenting” with tiny microphones in unmarked police cars that can pick up nearby conversations on the street is yet another civil rights slap in the face in a city where...
Mar 25, 2005 | News Releases
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has once again placed the Democratic Party’s agenda of anti-gun bigotry ahead of the rights of law-abiding citizens to own firearms and defend themselves, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said...
Mar 8, 2005 | News Releases
By Alan Gottlieb and Joe Waldron Forgive us for asking, but how might civil rights activists and editorialists react if they learned that a United States Senator wants to keep personal records on people suspected of carrying the AIDS virus, even though they have...
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...
