Feb 26, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA-The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today congratulated the Missouri Supreme Court for its intellectual honesty in ruling that there is no constitutional prohibition against carrying concealed firearms, thus upholding the...
Feb 25, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA-New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, in public debate over passage of S.659/S.1805, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, today lied about the role that a Tacoma, WA gun shop played in the acquisition of a rifle by convicted Beltway snipers John...
Feb 24, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA-Democrats thinking about voting to renew and expand the so-called “assault weapons ban” passed in 1994 during the first Clinton Administration should remember how their party lost control of Congress, and more than 50 members, because of that...
Feb 23, 2004 | News Releases
The U.S. Senate appears ready to debate S. 659, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act on Wednesday, Feb. 25, and gun owners need to call Capitol Hill and urge their Senators to support these measures and block a filibuster, the Citizens Committee for the Right...
Feb 18, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and other opponents of a proposed statute that will allow citizens to carry concealed handguns for personal protection are “historically and emotionally wrong” on the issue, the Citizens Committee for the Right to...
Feb 9, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA—Two leading national gun rights organizations have cancelled plans to hold their 20th annual conference in New York City, blaming Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reported denunciation of the National Rifle Association as “reprehensible.†The Citizens...
Feb 4, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA—Members of the Wisconsin Assembly who voted to sustain the veto of sensible concealed carry legislation by anti-gun Gov. Jim Doyle have displayed “cowardice below and beneath their duty to public safety,†the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep...
Feb 1, 2004 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Joseph B. Alonso of Marietta, Georgia is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for February. Â In nominating Mr. Alonso for the Award, J. H. Versnel, Managing Editor of Point Blank, pointed out that the 27-year-old attorney has...
Feb 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
In Ohio, after CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb urged Gov. Bob Taft to sign a concealed carry measure passed by the state legislature, Taft did so. For years, CCRKBA worked with Ohioans for Concealed Carry to produce a CCW measure acceptable to both the legislature...
Jan 28, 2004 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Rescheduling of a veto override vote in Wisconsin until Thursday has given backers of personal safety legislation one more day to lobby lawmakers in Madison in an effort to see concealed carry become a reality in the Badger State. The Citizens...
