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...
Jan 11, 2005 | News Releases
A report by the Maryland State Police that recommends repeal of a law requiring collection of ballistic imaging information “shatters one of the favorite myths of gun control extremists,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said...
Jan 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...
Jan 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
According to a Gallup Poll taken just before the national elections in November, and shortly after expiration of the so-called “ban†on so-called “assault weapons†in September,†slightly more than half of Americans (54 percent) said laws covering the sale...
