Feb 1, 2002 | Uncategorized
President George W. Bush has named John W. Magaw to head the Transportation Security Administration. Magaw, a former director of the Secret Service and BATF, has been Acting Executive Director of the Office of National Preparedness within the Federal Emergency...
Jan 25, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has won another victory in its effort to overturn two Ohio gun control laws. The Court of Appeals modified the stay so that it expires on April 10th at 9:00 AM, set oral arguments for March 20th and noted that...
Jan 15, 2002 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Tuesday’s shooting of two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in New York is proof that the “Gun Free School Zone” loophole must be closed, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). Two...
Jan 10, 2002 | News Releases
Today’s ruling that Ohio’s ban on carrying concealed firearms is unconstitutional should spur lawmakers in the Buckeye State to enact concealed carry reform legislation now under consideration, said leaders of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep...
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...
