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...

October 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...

September 2008

 After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the District of Columbia ban on handgun possession in the home violated the Second Amendment protection of individual gun rights, the Board of Supervisors of Morton Grove, Illinois voted 5-1 to repeal the village ban...

August 2008

 CCRKBA, using the gun rights Supreme Court decision against a federal enclave in District of Columbia v. Heller as the basis for its action, joined with the National Rifle Association in filing a civil rights lawsuit to confirm that the Second Amendment restricts...

July 2008

 San Francisco’s budget crisis underscores the frivolity of the city’s stubborn and expensive defense of its doomed-from-the-start 2005 gun ban, CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb said last month. He said the city administration’s pursuit of this case, which was...