Dec 22, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is sending city employees home without pay on Christmas Eve, “just like Ebenezer Scrooge would have done,†yet he continues squandering scarce city funds defending an unconscionable, and soon–to–be unconstitutional,...
Dec 17, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – A proposal to ban so–called “assault weapons†in Washington State shifts the blame for recent violent crimes from the perpetrators to every law–abiding gun owner in the state, holding them and their firearms responsible for crimes they did not...
Dec 1, 2009 | Point Blank
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Dec 1, 2009 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
When the Obama administration announced it was reversing U.S. policy and would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, the scholarly work of Gary Mauser took on increased significance. The Obama decision...
Dec 1, 2009 | Quick Shots
Felons are learning “hard lessons†from armed citizens, according to the News Tribune of Jefferson City, Missouri. During a home invasion in early October, one of the intruders was shot and killed by one of the occupants of a mobile home. About a week later, an...
Nov 11, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Anti–gun Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has reached a new low in his attempt to blame the Fort Hood massacre on firearms, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at...
Nov 3, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today condemned Washington CeaseFire President Ralph Fascitelli for capitalizing on the murder of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Q. Brenton by announcing a plan to lobby for a ban on...
Nov 1, 2009 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Alan Caruba of South Orange, New Jersey is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for November. In nominating Caruba for the Award, John M. Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said the noted public relations counselor and editorial consultant “for years has...
Nov 1, 2009 | Quick Shots
As this is being written in late October, Congress has passed only two of 12 appropriations acts to fund federal government agencies for the fiscal year that began October 1st. The government is currently running on a “continuing resolution,†allowing expenditures...
Oct 21, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today congratulated gun owners in Minnesota for reforming the state’s concealed carry law, and applauded Gov. Tim Pawlenty for signing the bill. “Gov. Pawlenty did the...
