Sep 14, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – For the third straight year, violent crime has declined in all categories while gun sales climbed, gun ownership expanded and more citizens are carrying firearms for personal protection; proof positive that gun prohibitionists have been consistently...
Aug 11, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Today’s revelation that the City of San Francisco might consider an ammunition registry scheme brought a promise from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that a lawsuit would quickly follow. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said...
Aug 1, 2010 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for August. In nominating Justice Alito for the CCRKBA Award, John M. Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, noted that the jurist “wrote the Supreme Court’s...
Jul 2, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – A new Rasmussen poll showing a majority of Americans believe cities cannot ban handguns “goes along with what we have been saying, and what the Supreme Court affirmed,†the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “The...
Jul 1, 2010 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
One of the main reasons the rightto carry concealed firearms movementhas become so popular andprevalent throughout the UnitedStates is because the gun communityhas learned and become adept atusing new forms of communication,maintains Brian Anse Patrick, theCCRKBA Gun...
Jun 17, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – This week’s highly-publicized effort to exempt the National Rifle Association from the effects of the “Disclose Act,†H.R. 5175 shows how fundamentally bankrupt the legislation and its underlying philosophy is, the Citizens Committee for the...
Jun 2, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Wednesday’s mass shooting in northwest England is more proof that restrictive gun laws do not prevent horrible criminal acts, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Wire service and British news agency reports say 12...
Jun 1, 2010 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Governor Janice K. Brewer ofArizona is the CCRKBA GunRights Defender on the Monthfor June.In nominating the Grand CanyonState chief executive for the Award,John M. Snyder, CCRKBA PublicAffairs Director, said that, “Gov. JanBrewer, since she became governorin...
May 28, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – An 80-year-old Chicago man who defended himself and his family from a neighborhood thug this week could be criminally prosecuted, if Barack Obama had prevailed in a 2004 Illinois State Legislature vote on a measure to protect citizens who use handguns...
May 24, 2010 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – For the third year in a row, violent crime has declined in the United States while increasing numbers of American citizens own firearms and are licensed to carry, a trend that belies predictions of anti-gunners that more guns will result in more...
