CCRKBA

Attend a gun show on 'Guns Save Lives Day'

BELLEVUE, WA – With dozens of gun shows scheduled around the country this weekend, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggests that one way a gun owner can observe Sunday’s “Guns Save Lives Day” is to attend a gun show, and network with other firearms enthusiasts to protect the Second Amendment.

CCRKBA Blasts Hypocrisy of Gun Ban Groups, Obama Admin. on Newtown Exploitation

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said gun ban groups and the Obama administration are engaged in “world-class hypocrisy” for criticizing gun rights organizations over “Guns Save Lives Day” – on the day after the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy – while planning their own lobbying effort and activities to exploit the event.

CCRKBA Supports Interpol Chief’s Idea About Armed Citizens

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms concurs with Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble’s suggestion earlier today that an armed citizenry is one way to meet the threat of terrorism like the attack on a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall last month.

Let The Arms Trade Treaty Gather Dust

BELLEVUE, WA – Secretary of State John Kerry may have signed the controversial United Nations Arms Trade Treaty today, but tomorrow it begins gathering dust in the U.S. Senate, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms predicted.

Maybe Chicago should ban gangs, not guns

BELLEVUE, WA – A call for banning so-called “assault weapons” in the wake of Thursday night’s shooting in a Chicago park, believed to be part of an ongoing war between two rival gangs, shows the Windy City needs to concentrate on banning gangs, not guns, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

CCRKBA To Bloomberg:  ‘Looks Like Your Gun Problem Begins At Home’

BELLEVUE, WA - The arrest of a New York City police officer and his brother on federal weapons charges demonstrates a need for anti-gun Mayor Michael Bloomberg to keep his own house clean before he spends one more dime or one more day trying to tell the rest of the country about "illegal guns," the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Obama’s Ban on Surplus Relics Reveals His Anti-Gun Extremism

BELLEVUE, WA – Barack Obama’s new strategy for attacking gun owners specifically targets collectors and competitors by blocking returns of surplus military rifles over six decades old, and reveals his extremist anti-gun attitude, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Seattle’s Gun Free Zones’ Idea is all Flash, no substance

BELLEVUE, WA – A new effort announced today by Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and Washington CeaseFire encouraging businesses to become “gun free zones” is all flash and no substance, and could actually backfire with a rise in violent crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

CCRKBA Rips Emanuel for blaming Chicago’s violence on gun rights

BELLEVUE, WA – Chicago’s “weak link” in public safety is not gun control but Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s adherence to the stale and ineffective strategies of the gun prohibition lobby, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

SAF Applauds Illinois lawmakers for override vote, court compliance

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today congratulated Illinois lawmakers for “courageously overriding Gov. Pat Quinn’s veto” of concealed carry legislation, complying with a federal appeals court mandate that resulted from SAF’s successful civil rights lawsuit against the state’s prohibition on bearing arms for personal protection.

CCRKBA to Bloody Baltimore: ‘How’s that new gun control thing working?’

BELLEVUE, WA – Weeks after Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed one of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, a bloodbath continues in Baltimore where June ended with dozens of shootings, prompting the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to ask gun control proponents what they really accomplished.

Bloomberg’s use of city server for MAIG needs investigation

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is calling on New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman to investigate whether any laws have been violated by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for apparently operating a website for Mayors Against Illegal Guns that is reportedly registered to a New York City government server, and apparently administered by city employees.

CCRKBA Calls for universal background checks on all elected officials

BELLEVUE, WA – Naming an alleged Boston Marathon bomber as a victim of gun violence because he was shot dead by police shows just how morally bankrupt Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun “No More Names” bus tour really is, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

CCRKBA Urges support for Kelly measure to restrict ATT funding

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is encouraging gun owners to support an effort by Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA) to restrict funding related to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in the National Defense Authorization Bill (HR 1960).

Op-Ed: The revealing British newspaper poll nobody will hear about

When the British daily newspaper The Telegraph asked readers which of six suggested measures they would like to see introduced in the House of Commons, reader response was surprisingly tilted toward one significant proposal, but you probably won't hear about it from the U.S. media.

Twent five shootings, 6 dead in NYC; Bloomberg says his gun control agenda works?

BELLEVUE, WA – Six dead and more than two dozen shootings in New York City over the weekend is a sign that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agenda – which he hopes to spread across the nation with his big bucks campaigns to buy away the gun rights of American citizens – is beginning to fail, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Watch New Pro-Gun Rights TV Spot

CCRKBA and the Second Amendment Foundation have jointly released this new pro-gun rights TV spot. It is titled "The Real War on Women."

CCRKBA condemns Obama justice department probes of reporters

BELLEVUE, WA – Citing concerns about First Amendment erosion based on revelations about covert Justice Department probes of journalists, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called the government snooping “deplorable, if not despicable.”

Hacking shows why gun owners oppose registry, records keeping

BELLEVUE, WA – Thursday’s revelation that the Washington State court system has been hacked and the records of hundreds of thousands of citizens may have been accessed clearly demonstrates why gun owners are adamantly opposed to background check records keeping, and want the state’s pistol registry destroyed, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

CCRKBA says Coburn Amendment made sense, blasts senate

BELLEVUE, WA – A proposal by Sen. Tom Coburn to expand gun rights made sense, and Senate anti-gunners who opposed the measure should be held accountable by voters, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.