BELLEVUE, WA – Newly-released data from the Council on Criminal Justice has unintentionally revealed the deceptive nature of rhetoric from the gun prohibition lobby, and it’s time for the media to start asking the tough questions, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response. “The new report, which is all over the media, says homicides declined more than 20 percent last year from the number in 2024,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Yet a look at data from the

BELLEVUE, WA – The 41st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference—co-sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)—is scheduled the weekend of Sept. 25-27 at the Westin Dallas-Fort Worth Airport hotel in Dallas, Texas. Since its launch in 1985, the Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) has grown to become one of the most significant annual gatherings of Second Amendment leaders, scholars, legal minds and grassroots activists on the map. Each year, it draws the top

BELLEVUE, WA – Canadian gun owners just sent their government a message that may be lost on the country’s leftist Liberal politicians, but is crystal clear to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. According to the National Post, the federal government confirmed that only 25 firearms were turned in as part of a “test run” on the buyback which was aimed at collecting 200 banned guns, amounting to only about 12 percent of what they expected. Firearms which were surrendered,

BELLEVUE, WA – A Massachusetts Appeals Court panel unanimously “made the right call” in ruling a wife cannot be denied an application for a license to carry (LTC) because of past incidents involving her husband, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed. In the case of Guinane v. Chief of Police of Manchester-by-the-Sea, the three-judge panel reversed lower court rulings and ordered that Barbara Guinane’s application for a license to carry be granted, even though her husband’s LTC had been

BELLEVUE, WA – The announcement by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon that the Justice Department has filed an amicus brief in the case of Rhode v. Bonta, challenging California’s background check requirement for ammunition purchases, has been greeted with delight by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb noted how this amicus submission strongly reinforces DOJ’s previously-announced commitment to protect the Second Amendment. The plaintiffs won at the District Court level, and again before a three-judge panel

BELLEVUE, WA – Civil unrest in Iran has resulted in the arrest of “an unspecified number of people,” according to Reuters, some of whom were allegedly building homemade pistols, underscoring what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms calls a classic example of oppressed people using their skills to fight back against a tyrannical regime. Several people have reportedly been killed in the unrest, according to various news agencies, and Ayatollah Khamenei allegedly already has a plan to “flee the country”

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is cheering the ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down California’s ban on open carry in urban areas, which is a serious blow to the state’s effort to trample the Second Amendment rights of its citizens. The case is known as Baird v. Bonta. The 2-1 majority opinion was authored by Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a 2020 Donald Trump appointee. He was joined

BELLEVUE, WA – The Trump administration has filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia, challenging the city’s continuing effort, despite Supreme Court rulings, to restrict and infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is cheering the action. “We are proud to see the Trump administration stand up for the constitutional and civil rights of Americans who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This

BELLEVUE, WA – Liberal Congressional hopeful Jack Schlossberg—grandson to President John F. Kennedy—wants to make political hay by demanding that states with so-called “weak gun laws” should be penalized because guns from those states end up used in crimes in New York, but the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says he has it backwards. Schlossberg is campaigning to succeed Democrat Jerrold Nadler, longtime representative from New York’s 12th District, who is retiring and will not run in 2026. Schlossberg made