Oct 9, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Only days after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to one of the nation’s most egregious gun laws, a new Rasmussen poll shows waning support for stricter gun laws. The Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said...
Oct 1, 2009 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Mike Stollenwerk, a gun rights activist and U.S. Army retired veteran located in the Washington, D.C. area, is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for October. In nominating Stollenwerk for the Award, John M. Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said...
Oct 1, 2009 | Quick Shots
The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States has triggered a firestorm of activity on the part of law-abiding gun owners. Legitimate concerns about the passage of gun control legislation have caused a spike in sales of firearms and ammunition since...
Sep 17, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is once again demonstrating her disdain for gun owners and their rights by opposing an amendment to her Amtrak funding legislation that would allow firearms to be carried in baggage aboard trains, the Citizens Committee for...
Sep 16, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Yesterday’s primary defeat of career anti-gunner Richard Aborn in his race to become Manhattan’s District Attorney shows that even residents of a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation reject the gun control philosophy espoused by...
Sep 1, 2009 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
CCRKBA is naming national radio and television personality Glenn Beck the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for September. In nominating the talk show host for the Award, John M. Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said the noted TV host “is incisive and...
Sep 1, 2009 | Quick Shots
The landmark Second Amendment Supreme Court case, District of Columbia v Dick Anthony Heller, has been followed up at the Circuit Court level in at least three separate cases. The 2nd and 7th Circuits have ruled that Heller does not apply to the states. The 9th...
Aug 21, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – Seattle gun owners can take much credit for the ouster of anti-gun Mayor Greg Nickels in this week’s primary election, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said this morning following what amounted to a concession speech at his...
Aug 17, 2009 | News Releases
BELLEVUE, WA – The brutal attack on Milwaukee, WI Mayor Tom Barrett Saturday night near the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds shows the need for a state concealed carry statute, which the mayor opposed, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said...
Aug 1, 2009 | Gun Rights Defender of the Month
Rev. Ken Pagano, Pastor of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Kentucky, is the CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month for August. In nominating the clergyman for the CCRKBA Award, John M. Snyder, CCRKBA Public Affairs Director, said that, “Rev. Pagano has rendered...
