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 in a report in the San Francisco Examiner that Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is [...]

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 high court ruled in its 2008 Heller decision that the handgun [...]

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 Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“The attempt by Democrats to essentially buy off the NRA [...]

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 people are dead and 25 people are wounded, and suspected gunman Derrick [...]

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 in self-defense even when their communities ban handguns.
“As an Illinois State [...]

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 crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep [...]

OMAHA, NE – The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association (NFOA) today called on the city of Omaha to end its practice of registering firearms, in the wake of a case involving a private citizen who fatally shot an armed robber, and who continues to be denied the ability to register a new firearm by the Omaha [...]

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said a bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Jon Tester and John McCain that would repeal most gun laws in the District of Columbia “would not be necessary if District officials had lived up to the 2008 Supreme Court ruling in [...]

BELLEVUE, WA – Oakland, California is proposing more anti-gun ordinances. They will vote on their new anti-gun effort this coming Tuesday, February 16. It is imperative that we mount a full-scale opposition to their effort.
PLEASE ATTEND THE FEBRUARY 16 OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION!
When: Tuesday, February 16, at 06:00 p.m.
Where: Third Floor [...]

BELLEVUE, WA – Evergreen State gun owners are urged to contact their state senator, and if possible, plan to attend a hearing on Senate Bill 6396, the proposed ban on so-called “assault weapons” sponsored by Senators Adam Kline and Jeanne Kohl-Welles.
The public hearing is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. in Hearing Room 1 [...]