Oct 28, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – While Barack Obama has been pushing harder for more gun laws to disarm honest citizens, his Justice Department has been prosecuting fewer gun crimes despite announcing more than two years ago he would increase such prosecutions, the Citizens Committee...
Oct 27, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – President Barack Obama may have a receptive audience with the traditionally anti-gun-rights International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago, but to get a better grasp on how rank-and-file law enforcement feels about his gun grabbing policies,...
Oct 22, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Noting public frustration over the Senate Democrats’ blocking of legislation to crack down on sanctuary cities and their renewed push for new gun control laws, plus the announced plan to release thousands of prison inmates early, the Citizens Committee...
Oct 15, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
California Assemblyman Brian Jones, a Santee Republican representing the 71st Assembly District, has a history of promoting and defending firearms ownership that might be best exemplified by the Second Amendment Awareness event he sponsors at the Lemon Grove Rod &...
Oct 8, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today accused Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun lobbying group, Everytown for Gun Safety, of working to keep schools vulnerable to violent attack, while also challenging the group’s claim that there...
Oct 5, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
When word spread that a U.S. Navy veterans’ gun rights were in jeopardy because of a decision by the Veteran’s Administration, scores of protesters showed up at the man’s home in Priest River, Idaho, but the most prominent of them all were Bonner County Sheriff Daryl...
Oct 5, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
When Maine Governor Paul LePage signed legislation that will allow “constitutional carry” of firearms without a permit, the gun prohibition lobby was infuriated, accusing him of going against the wishes of a majority of Pine Tree State voters. But rights aren’t up to...
Oct 5, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
When Utah Congressman Rob Bishop introduced H.R. 2710 – the Lawful Purpose and Self-Defense Act of 2015 – he fired a political shot across the bow of an agency that has seemed to many to be out of control for years with law-abiding gun owners as the ultimate victims,...
Oct 5, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Defending a constitutional right takes many forms, and every so often, it comes in the form of a verbal bow shot in what might be called “enemy territory” where the idea of exercising the right to keep and bear arms seems as alien as Michael Rennie’s “Klaatu”...
Oct 5, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Josephine County, Oregon Sheriff Dave Daniel recently made headlines when he told a Grants Pass newspaper that enforcing a new so-called “universal background check” law would not be among his priorities. The former Oregon State Trooper and Grants Pass police officer...
