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...
Nov 28, 2001 | News Releases
The lawsuit to overturn the unconstitutional laws barring self-defense through legal concealed carry of firearms by law-abiding adults begins on Thursday, November 29th at 10:30 AM in the Common Pleas Court in Hamilton County, Ohio. The lawsuit involves two combined...
Nov 28, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA. – The failure of Seattle, WA police to stop a knife-wielding suspect with shots from two “Taser” electric guns in an incident that turned deadly Nov. 26 underscores the necessity for airline pilots to be allowed to carry handguns to...
Nov 3, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Calling it a “grotesque attempt to exploit a national tragedy,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) condemned Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s call for more restrictive gun laws as a response to...
Nov 1, 2001 | Uncategorized
They don‟t mince words way up north, says The Washington Times. The newspaper reports that the message on Alaska State Rep. Fred Dyson‟s pick-up truck is: “Fight crime, shoot back.†Dyson, who represents District 25 in Eagle River, points out that the slogan...
Nov 1, 2001 | Uncategorized
Captain Duane E. Woerth, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International, is the recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for November. “When the suicidal terrorists struck on that day with the use of knives and box cutters,†said...
Oct 16, 2001 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Affirming that the Second Amendment is an individual right, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday reversed over 60 years of judicial misinterpretation and anti-gun revisionist history. “This is a milestone victory for...
