Apr 1, 2002 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Tracy K. Bridges of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, VA has been named the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for April.  “Tracy, who throughout his adult life has been a firearms enthusiast and defender of the right to keep and bear arms,...
Apr 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
In California, pro-gun rights candidate Bill Simon, Jr. defeated anti-gun Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Political newcomer Simon’s victory came as a surprising upset. In a poll taken Jan. 23-27, Riordan had a 33 –point...
Mar 22, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today is requesting that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigate whether a gun purchase, acknowledged by gun control advocate Sarah Brady in her...
Mar 19, 2002 | News Releases
Oral Arguments in the landmark concealed carry lawsuit funded by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) will take place on Wednesday, March 20th at 9:00 AM in Room A of the William Howard Taft Law Center in Cincinnati. A decision in this case is expected anytime...
Mar 2, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – A recently-released study that attempts to credit a 1988 Maryland anti-gun law for a reduction in gun-related murders over the past decade is both “flawed and transparent,” said Joe Waldron, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the...
Mar 1, 2002 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Juli Bednarzyk, Founder and President of Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS), is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for March. Â In nominating Ms. Bednarzyk for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director,...
Mar 1, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Offering some critical advice to Democrats in their highly-publicized campaign to regain the trust of American gun owners, spokesmen for two leading firearms rights organizations today released a strongly-worded opinion piece to newspapers across...
Mar 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
The students who stopped a crazed gunman in late January at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia were able to do so because they were armed with guns, even though few media reports of the incident noted that fact. When Peter Odighizuwa, a discontented...
Feb 14, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Calling it “the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of the Bill of Rights,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today condemned the US House of Representatives for its middle-of-the-night passage of the...
Feb 1, 2002 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Juli Bednarzyk, Founder and President of Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS), is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for March. Â In nominating Ms. Bednarzyk for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director,...