Mar 1, 2003 | Uncategorized
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans cautious implementation of the plan to allow commercial airline pilots to carry guns. Only 50 pilots will be in the initial program, according to TSA. Directed last year by Congress to develop a training program...
Feb 1, 2003 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Celebrating his tenth year in broadcasting, Seattle, WA radio talk host Kirby Wilbur is no stranger to defending the Second Amendment, a commitment that has earned him the CCRKBA Defender of the Month award. Â The 49-year-old Wilbur was born in Washington, D.C., but...
Feb 1, 2003 | Uncategorized
“There was a time when coming out strongly for gun control could help get you elected,†reports PR Week. “But these days, due either to a tide of libertarianism or the increasing strength of the gun lobby, promising to take guns away from Americans will get you...
Jan 10, 2003 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Alaska received an A+ and Michigan an A for enacting new laws during 2002 that eased restrictions on the right to bear arms, in the latest Concealed Carry Report Card issued by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. However,...
Jan 3, 2003 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Now that publisher Alfred A. Knopf has decided to halt further publication of the discredited Michael Bellesiles book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is...
Jan 3, 2003 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today applauded a ruling by Washington, D.C. Superior Court Judge Cheryl M. Long that dismisses a lawsuit against the firearms industry, and instead suggested that if the city wants to reduce gun violence, it...
Jan 3, 2003 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today affirmed its support for concealed carry reform in Colorado, while suggesting that gun rights opponents in the medical community need to keep their own house in order before...
Jan 1, 2003 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Sheriff John McCroskey of Lewis County, WA has been honored with the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for January.  CCRKBA Communications Director Dave Workman said McCroskey’s “deeds speak for themselves. He reamed KIRO-TV in Seattle for its...
Jan 1, 2003 | Uncategorized
In Washington, D. C., the Cato Institute is crafting a legal challenge to the city’s gun control law, claiming that all law-abiding Americans have the right to defend themselves. “The Second Amendment provides an individual right for a person to bear arms, not a...
Dec 17, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today applauded a ruling by Washington, D.C. Superior Court Judge Cheryl M. Long that dismisses a lawsuit against the firearms industry, and instead suggested that if the city wants to reduce gun violence, it...
