CCRKBA

CCRKBA Hails Florida Woman Who Used AR-15 To Defend Family

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is hailing the courage and tenacity of a Florida woman who, despite being eight months pregnant, used an AR-15 rifle to defend her husband and daughter from violent home invaders. “This is yet another example of why the Second Amendment must be zealously defended,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, co-author of the recently-released “Good Guys with Guns,” written with Dave Workman, senior editor of TheGunMag.com. “Homeowner Jeremy King told reporters that he would be dead if his wife hadn’t used his AR-15 to shoot one of the robbers and send the other one running.

CCRKBA Declares Democrats Have Hidden Agenda Behind Impeachment

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today declared there is a “hidden agenda” behind the impeachment efforts of House Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi and it is designed to tie up the U.S. Senate and derail efforts to confirm more pro-Second Amendment judges to the federal courts.

CCRKBA Rips Biden Gun Ban Scheme: 'Same Goal, Different Sales Pitch'

BELLEVUE, WA – Former Vice President Joe Biden’s proposed gun control plan that includes “a voluntary buyback program or federal registration” has the same goal of eliminating semi-auto sporting rifles, but just has a different sales pitch, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “The Biden gun ban scheme falls right in line with the other Democrat presidential candidates’ goals of prohibition and confiscation,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “What we need to ban are assault politicians that have no respect for our rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. We will get a chance to do that at the ballot box in 2020.”

FBI say violent crime down, CCRKBA asks Dems "What gun violence epidemic?"

BELLEVUE, WA – The newly-release FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2018 says violent crime is down overall 3.3 percent from 2017, and the number of reported homicides involving firearms also declined, leading the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to ask Democrats and the gun prohibition lobby: “What ‘gun violence’ epidemic are you talking about?”

CCRKBA: O’Rourke's 'Hell Yes' Candor Bares Democrats' True Intent On Guns

BELLEVUE, WA – Democrat presidential hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s outburst on gun control during Thursday evening’s presidential debate, and the applause that followed, effectively erased any doubts about the true intent the candidate, his party and their followers have toward the Second Amendment, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “Hell, yes,” O’Rourke blurted, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47!”

CCRKBA Says Dems 'Just Don't Get it' With Ramped-up Gun Control Push

BELLEVUE, WA – Congressional Democrats “just don’t get it,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today after the House Judiciary Committee moved three gun control bills on party lines, including one to limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds. “So far,” CCRRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed, “all Democrats have accomplished with their gun prohibition agenda is increase gun sales by 15 percent over the last month. This happens every time they introduce or pass new restrictions. They just don’t get it.”

Cuomo's ban on armed teachers will make schools less safe, says CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, WA – By placing his signature on legislation that prevents local New York State school districts from authorizing armed volunteer staff, including teachers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made schools more vulnerable to attack and signaled that fact to every deranged person looking for a headline, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

CCRKBA LAUDS REP. MASSIE’S EFFORT TO REPEAL GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONE ACT

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today lauded Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie for reintroducing legislation aimed at repealing the Gun-Free School Zones Act and replacing it with the far more sensible Safe Students Act.

DEM. CANDIDATES SHOULD TAKE LESSON FROM NEW ZEALAND, SAYS CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, WA – A new report from New Zealand three months after the Parliament there hastily enacted new gun control regulations shows that people are not surrendering their banned firearms, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today that there is a lesson in that for Democrats now vying for the presidency.

NORTHAM EXPLOITS TRAGEDY TO PUSH TIRED ANTI-GUN AGENDA, SAYS CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, WA – Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is using the tragedy at Virginia Beach to resurrect a hackneyed gun control agenda that would not have prevented the crime, while distancing himself from the scandal that should have forced him from office, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

CCRKBA Slams Software Company's 'Corporate Policy of Coercion and Social Bigotry'

BELLEVUE, WA – Breaking news that a San Francisco-based business software company is dictating to certain retailers what they can or cannot sell at the risk of being unable to use its software was slammed today by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as a form of “corporate coercion and social bigotry.”

‘BRADY SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GUN OWNERS FOR VIGIL EXPLOITATION'

“BELLEVUE, WA – While the Brady Campaign has expressed sorrow that some anti-gun politicians tried to turn a vigil for victims of the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting into a gun control event, Brady should apologize to all American gun owners for allowing the attempted exploitation to happen, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Booker's outrageous gun control scheme ignores second amendment right

BELLEVUE, WA – Democrat presidential aspirant Cory Booker’s far-ranging gun control scheme that calls for five-year licensing, invasive background checks, bans on semiautomatic rifles and original capacity magazines and more amounts to an outrageous plan to turn the Second Amendment right into a government-regulated privilege, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

CCRKBA: ‘Lawyers Should Be Prohibited From Disclosing Client Gun Ownership'

BELLEVUE, WA – A disturbing story about attorneys attending a legal seminar who said they would report their clients to police as being “potentially dangerous” because they owned firearms prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to call for stronger legislation to protect gun owner privacy.

CCRKBA, SAF Condemn New Zealand Attack

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Foundation today condemned today’s attack on a New Zealand mosque by a killer who reportedly declared in a manifesto that he wanted to “deepen strife in the United States over gun ownership and the Second Amendment.”

CCRKBA, SAF . Question Congressional Motives Behind NRA Investigations

BELLEVUE, WA – Reports that the National Rifle Association is being engulfed in what one publication described as “a rapidly expanding tangle of congressional investigations” raise an important question that nobody has been asking: Is this a deliberate effort by anti-gun-rights Congressional Democrats to overwhelm the organization’s leadership and prevent NRA from fulfilling its mission to protect the Second Amendment?

CCRKBA Says House Passage of Gun Control Measure Will Not Prevent Crime

BELLEVUE, WA – Passage of H.R. 8 today by the U.S. House of Representatives confirms that extremist gun control is more important to the anti-gun leadership than making meaningful efforts to reduce violent crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

CCRKBA SAYS WASH. LT. GOV. HABIB SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GUN OWNERS OR RESIGN

BELLEVUE., WA – After Washington State Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib refused to attend the “State of the State” address over concerns that the House chambers, where the speech was delivered, allows legally armed citizens in the public galleries, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called upon Habib to either apologize to the state’s gun owners, or step down.

CCRKBA TO BLOOMBERG: ‘WHITE HOUSE AND CONSTITUTION AREN’T FOR SALE

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today reacted to the announcement from anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg that he would finance his own presidential campaign if he decides to run by advising the former New York mayor that “the White House and our Constitutional Rights are not for sale.”

Chicago Incident Another Case of Guns Saving Lives, Thanks to Lawsuits, Says SAF

BELLEVUE, WA – A young Chicago woman was able to defend herself against a would-be armed robber with a legally-carried pistol, thanks to two Second Amendment Foundation court victories that first nullified the city’s handgun ban and then forced the Illinois Legislature to adopt a concealed carry law, SAF noted today.