Jan 10, 2002 | News Releases
Ohio’s ban on carrying concealed firearms has been struck down as unconstitutional in a landmark ruling. Within Hamilton County, law-abiding, mentally competent adults can now carry guns concealed and have loaded guns in their vehicles without fear of being...
Jan 3, 2002 | News Releases
With a decision expected within the week on the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) lawsuit to overturn the unconstitutional laws barring self-defense through legal concealed carry of firearms, the other side is getting desperate as the facts simply aren’t...
Jan 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
Richard Poe, author of the book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control, is the January recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award. “For years,†said CCRKBA Public Affairs Director John M. Snyder, “we have witnessed gungrabbing establishmentarians...
Jan 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
CCRKBA announced its opposition to S. 1788, Sen. Charles Schumer’s “Use NICS in Terrorist Investigations Act,†that would give the FBI access to NICS records in law enforcement investigations, and mandate the maintenance of all NICS records for at least 90 days....
Dec 22, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Calling it “re-heated rhetoric,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said a paper issued by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence that blames so-called weak U.S. gun laws for terrorist threats is...
Dec 6, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA. – The Second Amendment Foundation said today that it supports the refusal by the Department of Justice to hand over firearms purchase background check records to the FBI, which wants to find out whether any of the 1,200 people detained after the...
Dec 5, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right To Keep and Bear Arms today urged all citizens, and especially gun owners, to call Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta by Wednesday, Dec. 12 and tell him to implement the Armed Pilots Provision of the...
Dec 1, 2001 | Uncategorized
Inmates serving time in state prisons during 1997 said they purchased 8.3 percent of their guns from retail stores, 3.8 percent at pawn shops, one percent at a flea market, 0.7 percent at gun shows, 39.6 percent from family or friends, and 39.2 percent on the street...
Dec 1, 2001 | Uncategorized
Congressman Joe Barton of Texas is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights De-fender of the Month Award for December. John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said Bar-ton, “truly distinguished himself recently by proposing the Federal Pilot...
Nov 29, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA. – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today lauded the Violence Policy Center’s (VPC) most recent study on child victims of gun violence for its use of honest statistics in reaching its conclusion. The VPC...
