Mar 30, 1998 | News Releases
Maybe the two taggant reports themselves were not as contradictory as it seemed, but the spin put on them indicated some differences. Both reports were released on March 4: One prepared by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), the other by the National...
Mar 15, 1998 | News Releases
In a voluntary poll of its readers conducted for its tenth anniversary, Women & Guns magazine found its readership skewing above the median in educational and economic categories, well-versed in firearms training and safety, but nevertheless willing to break gun...
Mar 1, 1998 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Sen. John Ashcroft of Missouri is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for March. In nominating Ashcroft for the Award, John Michael Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said that the U. S. Senator “is an experienced,...
Mar 1, 1998 | Quick Shots
Assemblyman Tom Bordonaro of California stopped by our Washington, D. C. office early last month to say hello and to reassure us of his total support of the individual Second Amendment civil right to keep and bear arms. Tom has been nominated to succeed the late U. S....
Feb 1, 1998 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Joyce Lee Malcolm is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for February. A Professor of History at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, she is the author of TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, THE ORIGINS OF AN ANGLO-AMERICAN RIGHT,...
Feb 1, 1998 | Quick Shots
“Sarah ‘Crybaby’ Brady” is how Tom Marr of radio station WCBM in Baltimore, Maryland referred to the Chairwoman of Handgun Control, Inc. Marr refused to back down from the characterization during a radio talk show confab. “What happened to her...
Jan 10, 1998 | News Releases
Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery and the Justice Department worked out a deal on Dec. 18 to settle a dispute over checking the criminal histories of handgun buyers, according to Katherine Rizzo of Associated Press The quarrel was resolved by enlisting the help...
Jan 10, 1998 | News Releases
If the average little .22 rimfire lead bullet weighs 40 grains, how many must be fired to equal 1,000 pounds? (Hint: a dozen of them weigh one ounce.) No, this is not a freshman algebra question. It is serious one with implications that threaten the future of many...
Jan 1, 1998 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Professor James D. Wright of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, a noted scholar in the sociological field of firearms research, is the designated recipient of the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month Award for January. In nominating Wright, the Charles...
Jan 1, 1998 | General Right to Keep and Bear Arms
U.S. Constitution, Amendment II (also known as the Second Amendment) A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. One Comma or Three? The Final (ratified) version had...
