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...
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...