Nov 6, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Outraged by the spectacle of a memorial service turned partisan pep rally, and recalling that Walter Mondale supported a ban on personal defense handguns when he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1984, Minnesota gun owners provided the critical...
Nov 6, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA. – Gun owners who recalled that Jean Carnahan opposed their right of self-defense sent a message to anti-gunners across the “Show Me State” by showing Carnahan the door and electing pro-gun Republican Jim Talent to the U.S. Senate....
Nov 6, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Gun owners appear to have been the linchpin in the victory of Rep. John Sununu over Gov. Jeanne Shaheen in their race for New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seat, demonstrating that it is not enough for Democrats to claim they are pro-sportsman to...
Nov 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
Michael S. Brown, an optometric physician from Vancouver, Washington, is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for November. In nominating Dr. Brown for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, pointed out...
Nov 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
A federal jury in Texas last month convicted Timothy Emerson of three counts of possessing a firearm. He was charged in 1998 after buying a pistol while under a restraining order during a divorce proceeding. U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings originally dismissed the...
Oct 28, 2002 | News Releases
Were Guns Scarce in Early America? Answering Bellesiles’s Claims “If this now flourishing City, and greatly improving Colony, is destroy’d and ruin’d, it will not be for want of Numbers of Inhabitants able to bear Arms in its defence....
Oct 21, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA — The nation’s gun owners are “going ballistic†as the Nov. 5 elections loom, and they are focusing their attention on anti-gun Democrats, whose fingerprints are all over new proposals to further restrict gun rights in the wake of the...
Oct 14, 2002 | News Releases
Washington, D.C. – The nation’s highest court will hear the Bean case on Wednesday, October 16, 2002. This case will decide whether people federally disqualified from firearm possession can ever regain the right to own a firearm through federal means. The...
Oct 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), is October’s recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award. “It gives me great pleasure to nominate Niger for this Award,†said John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public...
Oct 1, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Once again, anti-gun laws in California have created defenseless victims out of innocent, and unarmed, citizens as a man armed only with a knife was able to attack a Greyhound bus driver, causing the bus to crash and two passengers to die. Joe...
