Jun 3, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – New legislation mandating so-called “authorized user” technology on handguns is nothing more than a re-packaged “smart gun” scheme, and it’s a stupid idea that should be dead-on-arrival on Capitol Hill, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and...
Jun 2, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Today’s nationwide effort by the Michael Bloomberg-supported Everytown for Gun Safety to promote the wearing of orange garments in an effort to push the gun control agenda at least uses a color so many of Bloomberg’s former colleagues are already...
May 28, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said a White House suggestion that more gun control is one solution to the kind of violence that rocked Baltimore over the holiday weekend in that city’s continuing unrest is “simply...
May 18, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched a new national campaign aimed at countering the multi-million dollar gun control lobbying effort of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown for Gun Safety.” “While Bloomberg is...
May 14, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today applauded the fact checkers at PolitiFact, published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, for calling out Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety over claims that so-called “lax”...
Apr 22, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Nevada gun owners are urged to contact members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee about SB175, which is strongly supported by the Nevada Firearms Coalition, because it would eliminate various local laws that conflict with the statewide preemption law...
Apr 17, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – When Second Amendment activists in Oregon launched recall efforts against three state lawmakers who pushed gun control measures in Salem this year, the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms noted that politicians need to...
Apr 6, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Today’s arrest of Raymond Lee Fryberg, father of Marysville Pilchuck gunman Jaylen Fryberg, on charges of illegally purchasing the pistol used in that shooting demonstrates the fatal flaw of so-called “universal background check” legislation, the...
Apr 6, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
EXPERIENCE PAYS OFF FOR TEXAS ATTORNEY Thirteen years of experience with the Department of Justice appears to be paying off for Second Amendment advocates in the form of Texas attorney Bill Mateja, a principal in the Dallas office of Fish & Richardson, P.C. He is...
Mar 20, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Today’s announced resignation of B. Todd Jones as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will give the agency an opportunity to begin repairing its image following a string of debacles that included Operation Fast and...
