Jul 1, 2000 | Quick Shots
Background checks blocked 204,000 of the more than 8.6 million prospective firearm sales last year, according to a U.S. Justice Department report that shows state and local police rejected a higher percentage of would-be gun buyers than the FBI. The 1999 figures...
Jul 1, 2000 | Citizens Action Project
We’re entering a critical period in the legislative cycle. The new fiscal year begins on October 1, and Congress must get more than a dozen appropriation bills to the President to keep the federal government running. The appropriation process is the literal...
Jun 15, 2000 | News Releases
The 15th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) is expected to be huge as gun owners from across the country join together with gun rights leaders on September 29, 30 & October 1, 2000 at the Crystal City Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. This year’s FREE...
Jun 1, 2000 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Michael D. Yacino of East Douglas, Massachusetts is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Awardee for June. In presenting the Award to Mike in Massachusetts, Alan M. Gottlieb, CCRKBA Chairman, noted that Yacino, “through his loyal, untiring and outstanding...
Jun 1, 2000 | Quick Shots
On April 26, seven firearm manufacturers and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) filed a lawsuit in federal court against HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and government...
Jun 1, 2000 | Citizens Action Project
The Million Mom March has come and gone…all 100,000 of them (by photographic comparisons with earlier marches of known attendance). For all practical purposes, the MMM was a paid political event, orchestrated by the White House strictly for media impact....
May 1, 2000 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Noted criminologist Gary Kleck is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for May. In nominating Gary for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said that, “at this time, with the right of law-abiding...
May 1, 2000 | Quick Shots
In Washington, D. C., Congressman Bill McCollum of Florida, a CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Year Awardee, spoke out forcefully in support of his bill, H.R. 4051, to establish a grant program that provides incentives for states to enact mandatory minimum sentences...
May 1, 2000 | Citizens Action Project
Many state legislatures have adjourned for the rest of the year. Some states, such as Maryland, passed new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. In others, most notably Colorado, new gun controls were effectively blocked. The state legislators we elect this...
Apr 14, 2000 | News Releases
A major memorial service and other events will mark the one-year anniversary of the Littleton, Colorado, school shooting incident that left 15 dead, including the two students who planned the shootings. Students and other survivors are approaching the anniversary with...
