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...
Oct 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
The White House plans to ask Congress to consider moving BATF from the Treasury Department to the Justice Department, according to The Washington Post. The proposal follows the Bush Administration’s decision to transfer two other large Treasury agencies, the U.S....
Sep 6, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Having been first to call for the arming of commercial airline pilots just hours after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today hailed passage...
Sep 5, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The University of Wisconsin’s silly attempt to disarm West Virginia’s Mountaineer mascot during this Saturday’s football game in Madison was a public relations blunder that has been rectified, yet it revealed a deeper philosophy...
