BELLEVUE, WA – Recognized as a stalwart defender of the Second Amendment on Capitol Hill, Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise is being recognized as the “Gun Rights Legislator of the Year” by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. As House Minority Whip, Congressman Scalise, who has represented Louisiana’s First Congressional District since 2008, has been a powerful voice in defense of the Second Amendment. The victim of an attempted assassination more than three years ago, Scalise didn’t exploit his personal tragedy

BELLEVUE, WA – Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition and a veteran gun rights activist, has been honored by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms with its Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his lifelong devotion to Second Amendment rights. Turner, who spent 30 years with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, was founder of the NFC in 2011. The organization has several accomplishments to its credit, with Turner on point. He served on the Boards of Directors

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today announced that Washington Free Beacon writer Stephen Gutowski is this year’s recipient of its “Bill of Rights” award. “There is more to the Bill of Rights than the Second Amendment,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “There’s also a First Amendment, and Stephen Gutowski exercises and defends both on a daily basis. He represents the best in professional journalism, asking the right questions, raising the right issues and putting it all

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has announced the winner of its “Affiliate of the Year” award is the New Jersey Second Amendment Society. Established in 2010 NJ2AS “is an up-and-coming organization of Garden State gun rights activists who have seen a pretty busy year,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “They joined in a lawsuit against the Draconian concealed carry regulatory scheme, putting the state on the spot for essentially enforcing a law that keeps law-abiding New

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced today the recipient of the 2020 “Gun Rights Defender of the Year” award is veteran writer and military historian AWR Hawkins. Hawkins earned a Master’s Degree in U.S. History at West Texas A&M in 2003 and his Ph.D in U.S. Military History at Texas Tech University in 2009, and he has been an adjunct professor of history at Norwich University since 2012. He is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart