April 2009

 In Washington, D.C., CCRKBA announced its support for the proposed Veterans’ Heritage Firearms Act of 2009. Introduced by Rep. Dennis Rehberg of Montana, the bill, H.R. 442, would provide for a 90-day amnesty period during which veterans and their family members...

March 2009

 From Little Rock, Arkansas comes a report that Arkansans with permits to carry concealed handguns could bring their firearms to church under House Bill 1237 filed in late January by State Rep. Beverly Pyle of Cedarville. The bill would remove “any church or...

February 2009

 In Chicago, U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur rejected a pro-gun rights challenge to anti-gun ordinances there and in Oak Park, Illinois. The gun-rights challenge maintained that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller that the D.C....

January 2009

 “It hasn’t been this good for quite a while” wrote Sarah Brady following the election to public office of a number of anti-gun politicians last November. Brady, Chair of the anti-gun Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote to supporters and...

December 2008

 Michael Sullivan, who recently completed his second year as Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), told Alex Kingsbury of U.S. News & World Report, that “the toughest investigations to conduct at the local and...

November 2008

An 85-year-old grandmother from Lake Lynn in Fayette County, Pennsylvania kept an alleged burglar at bay in mid-August with the use of a .22 caliber handgun, according to newspaper reports. Police said a 17-year old suspect was attempting to burglarize Leda Smith...