CCRKBA PANS PROPOSED ‘VIOLENCE TAX’ ON GUNS, AMMO IN COOK COUNTY

Oct 9, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today criticized a proposed “violence tax” on firearms and ammunition sold in Chicago and surrounding Cook County suburbs as a means of closing a multi-million-dollar budget gap. The tax...

BLOOMBERG TALKS BIG ABOUT SELF-DEFENSE IN HIS DISARMAMENT ZONE, SAYS CCRKBA

Aug 29, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the wrong man to speak about self-defense in a city that is a virtual victim disarmament zone because of his policies, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Mayor Bloomberg...

CCRKBA ENCOURAGED BY SECOND AMENDMENT REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

Aug 28, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is “encouraged by the strong pro-gun rights platform” put forth at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. “This is the strongest pro-gun rights platform I’ve ever seen,” said...

BLOOMBERG BASHES ROMNEY, OBAMA ON GUNS BUT DECLINED INVITE TO GRPC

Aug 7, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been challenging President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to speak out about gun control, but Bloomberg declined a chance to do it himself at the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in September, the Citizens...

‘GOV. QUINN GRANDSTANDS WITH PLAN TO BAN SEMI-AUTOS,’ SAYS CCRKBA

Jul 31, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s plan to ban so-called “assault weapons” in the Prairie State “is a grandstand play that ultimately punishes law-abiding Illinois gun owners for a crime that no gun law could prevent,” the Citizens Committee for the...

CCRKBA CREDITS GRASSROOTS FOR U.S. DECISION TO NOT SIGN ARMS TREATY

Jul 27, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today applauds the decision by the United States to not sign the proposed International Arms Trade Treaty, and CCRKBA credits grassroots action for the gun rights victory. CCRKBA Chairman Alan...

CCRKBA TO BLOOMBERG: ‘MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO ON STRIKE, MR. MAYOR’

Jul 24, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – Anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call for American police officers to “go on strike” in an effort to force Congress and state legislatures to push his gun prohibition agenda is “a new low in demagoguery,” the Citizens Committee...

26 NEW CO-SPONSORS TO 2A PROTECTION ACT IS ‘GOOD NEWS,’ SAYS CCRKBA

Jul 19, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – Twenty-six more members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors to the Second Amendment Protection Act, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced today. “This is good news,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb....

BLOOMBERG NEEDS TO PLUG POLICE LOCKER ROOM LOOPHOLE, SAYS CCRKBA

Jul 13, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – Before anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls on firearms dealers, gun shows and law-abiding citizens to stop the flow of so-called “illegal guns” to the Big Apple, he needs first to explain a gun trafficking loophole in his own city’s...

‘CONTEMPT VOTE AGAINST HOLDER NECESSARY FOR JUSTICE,’ SAYS CCRKBA

Jun 28, 2012 | News Releases

BELLEVUE, WA – The historic 255-67 vote by the House of Representatives to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents relating to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious was “necessary for justice to be...