Sep 21, 2004 | News Releases
Monday’s brutal murder of an unarmed Illinois Capitol security officer by a shotgun-wielding killer proves that restrictive gun laws like those in the Prairie State cannot stop determined criminals, and never have, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep...
Sep 20, 2004 | News Releases
Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado) is scheduled to speak at this weekend’s “2004 Gun Rights Policy Conference,” scheduled Sept. 24-26 at the Marriot Crystal City hotel in Arlington, VA just across the river from Washington, DC. This is the...
Sep 13, 2004 | News Releases
“Ten years of deception is finally over,” declared Alan M. Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) this morning, as the decade-old ban on production of certain semi-automatic firearms has come to an end....
Sep 13, 2004 | News Releases
This banned a rifle that is NOT used by criminals in the name of public safety and is not a good sign of things to come. There are two more bills on his desk that we must immediately work to defeat. They are as follows: SB1152 – Registration on all ammunition...
Sep 7, 2004 | News Releases
“Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts gets a Labor Day goose egg from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA),” said John M. Snyder, director of CCRKBA public affairs. Snyder, named dean of gun lobbyists by national media, said...
Sep 4, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – If the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating rapper Snoop Dogg’s armed bodyguards for violation of federal weapons laws, why isn’t the agency also snooping into Sen. Ted Kennedy’s armed...
Sep 4, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – If legendary Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire were still in office, he would certainly be obliged to give a Golden Fleece Award to Wisconsin’s $50,000-a-year “school gun hotline,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens...
Sep 4, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – After one bodega operator was jailed for using an unlicensed handgun to kill an armed robber and another merchant without a gun was slain – while police concentrated on issuing citations for technical infractions of obscure city laws –...
Sep 4, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – In yet another insult to justice and common sense, the ultra-liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the armed robbery conviction of California bank robber Deshon Rene Odom because he “never intentionally displayed the...
Sep 4, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – His use of an armed bodyguard revealed by NewsMax.com, New York Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer has been exposed as a world class hypocrite, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. “Chuck Schumer has...
