This summer as in past years, Congress plans to take several formal recesses when they return to the home district to communicate with constituents. These communications take many forms, including “town hall” meetings where they address gatherings of a few dozen to a few hundred citizens, public appearances where the citizens they represent can at [...]

When the Obama administration announced it was reversing U.S. policy and would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, the scholarly work of Gary Mauser took on increased
significance.
The Obama decision overturns the
Bush administration opposition to
such a treaty because it felt national
controls were better and [...]

December is normally a time when thoughts turn to home, to family and to the holiday season. And for
gun owners, it’s time for a little respite, a sigh of relief as another year closes with no new gun controls. Or
not.
The major focus on Capitol Hill remains health care reform. Health care reform has nothing to [...]

Felons are learning “hard lessons”
from armed citizens, according
to the News Tribune of
Jefferson City, Missouri. During
a home invasion in early October,
one of the intruders was shot and
killed by one of the occupants of a
mobile home. About a week later,
an armed assailant was recovering
from wounds after he was shot by
one of the people he was attempting
to herd [...]

BELLEVUE, WA – Anti–gun Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has reached a new low in his attempt to blame the Fort Hood massacre on firearms, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda,” said CCRKBA [...]

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today condemned Washington CeaseFire President Ralph Fascitelli for capitalizing on the murder of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Q. Brenton by announcing a plan to lobby for a ban on so–called “assault weapons” using Brenton’s killing as a launch pad.
“Over the years,” [...]

Alan Caruba of South Orange,
New Jersey is the CCRKBA Gun
Rights Defender of the Month for
November.
In nominating Caruba for the
Award, John M. Snyder, CCRKBA
Public Affairs Director, said the noted
public relations counselor and editorial
consultant “for years has been
a gun owner and fierce defender
in public of the individual Second
Amendment civil right of lawabiding
American citizens to keep
and bear arms. [...]

As this is being written in late October, Congress has passed only two of 12 appropriations acts to fund
federal government agencies for the fiscal year that began October 1st. The government is currently running
on a “continuing resolution,” allowing expenditures at the same rate as last year. Continuing resolutions
normally carry over until all of the appropriations [...]

In Washington, D.C., Sens. Kay
Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Jon
Tester of Montana, and Reps. Mark
Souder of Indiana and Mike Ross of
Arkansas are filing a joint, pro-gun
rights amicus curiae or friend of the
court brief before the U.S. Supreme
Court in the McDonald v. Chicago
case. Last year, the Court’s decision
in District of Columbia v. Heller
declared unconstitutional the District
handgun [...]

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today congratulated gun owners in Minnesota for reforming the state’s concealed carry law, and applauded Gov. Tim Pawlenty for signing the bill.
“Gov. Pawlenty did the responsible thing in signing this common-sense legislation,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Minnesota’s new law [...]