Mar 16, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is encouraging West Virginia members and supporters to contact the office of Governor Earl Ray Tomblin about Senate Bill 347. This measure would allow “constitutional carry” in West Virginia. It...
Mar 13, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun Capitol Hill Democrats just couldn’t resist further provoking the nation’s law-abiding gun owners with yesterday’s renewed push to ban ammunition even after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had temporarily stepped back...
Mar 11, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – In the wake of what can only be called a colossal blunder by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in its effort to ban popular rifle ammunition, ignoring the fact that the round was exempted from such regulation and the process may...
Mar 6, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
DEFENDERS COME IN BUNCHES! When it comes to standing up for firearms rights, one of the best examples recently involved three people, the plaintiffs in a case filed by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, that found the judge declaring the...
Mar 3, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has sent a blistering letter to B. Todd Jones, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, opposing the Obama administration’s proposed ban on M855 ammunition for modern...
Mar 2, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – A federal court in Texas has denied a government motion for a 60-day stay in a case involving interstate handgun transfers in which the judge applied strict scrutiny to determine whether a ban on such transfers meets constitutional muster. The case,...
Feb 20, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is encouraging its members to contact their U.S. senators and congressional representatives in support of Sen. John Cornyn’s Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015. “We think...
Feb 18, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is reminding New Jersey that it is “still part of the United States, not a police state,” over the case of retired teacher Gordon Van Gilder who faces ten years in prison for possession of...
Feb 11, 2015 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today won a major federal court ruling in a case involving interstate handgun transfers in which the judge applied strict scrutiny to determine whether a ban on such transfers meets...
Feb 6, 2015 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
INDIANA’S REP. LUCAS DEFENDS RIGHTS When Indiana State Rep. Jim Lucas (R-69th District) recently introduced legislation that would repeal the state’s concealed carry structure and replace it with so-called “constitutional carry,” it did not seem out of step for the...