Apr 4, 2004 | News Releases
Responding to published reports that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is threatening to veto that state’s recently-passed concealed carry bill, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today called upon Sunflower State gun owners to...
Apr 1, 2004 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Illinois State Sen. Edward Petka of Plainfield is the recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for April. Â Alan M. Gottlieb, CCRKBA Chairman, presented the Award to Petka during a recent Chicago ceremony hosted by the Illinois State Rifle...
Apr 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
After New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told New York Magazine that gun lobby leaders’ pro-gun remarks were “reprehensible,†Alan M. Gottlieb, Chairman of CCRKBA and Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), announced that the two groups have...
Apr 1, 2004 | News Releases
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today announced support for the proposed Cockpit Security Technical Corrections and Improvements Act, according to CCRKBA Public Affairs Director John Michael Snyder. “Ever since the militant Islamic...
Mar 30, 2004 | News Releases
The Missouri Supreme Court acted properly, rejecting the request by self-defense opponents to re-hear their arguments seeing to overturn the state’s new concealed carry statute, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today....
Mar 17, 2004 | News Releases
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today announced that it is opening an office in London, and joining with embattled British citizens in their fight to restore their firearms rights. It is the first time an American firearm civil...
Mar 2, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA-The addition of several poison pill amendments to S. 1805, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, should be ample reason for the United States Senate to kill this piece of legislation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms...
Mar 2, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA-Final rejection of a heavily-amended gun lawsuit liability protection bill by the U.S. Senate today was hailed by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which had called on the Senate to kill the measure after weighing it down with...
Mar 1, 2004 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
U. S. Representative Todd Tiahrt of Kansas is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for this month.  In nominating Congressman Tiahrt for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, noted that, “generally,...
Mar 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
In Annapolis, Maryland, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. said early last month that he opposes a statewide ban on the sale of so-called “assaultstyle†firearms. This, according to Tim Craig of The Washington Post, sets up a showdown with Democratic leaders in the...