BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing a new lawsuit filed in federal court in California, challenging Assembly Bill 1127, signed recently by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, which bans popular—and commonly used—Glock pistols in the state. While CCRKBA is not a plaintiff in the new legal action, we are watching it closely because the court has already held that several provisions of the UHA likely violate the Second Amendment. That case is known as Renna v.

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) “with respect to the untaxed firearms it purports to regulate” and “with respect to suppressors and short-barreled rifles” on Second Amendment grounds. CCRKBA is joined by the FPC Action Foundation, Texas State Rifle Association, Hot Shots Custom, and three private citizens, all Texas residents. They are represented by attorneys R. Brent Cooper at Cooper &

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BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is proud to welcome Florida resident and nationally-recognized school safety expert Ryan Petty to its Board of Directors. Mr. Petty, who lost his daughter, Alaina, in the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has become widely known for his school safety activism. He is the newly-elected chairman of the Florida State Board of Education, co-founder of the WalkUp Foundation, which focuses on programs that involve

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms joined five other leading gun rights organizations blasting some of the nation’s largest banking institutions for participating in “a brazen and ideologically driven campaign to undermine the Constitutionally protected right of all Americans to keep and bear arms.” The bombshell letter lays bare efforts to damage conservatives and especially the gun rights movement. CCRKBA is joined by the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, American Suppressor Association, Gun

BELLEVUE, WA – Louisiana has been nicknamed The Sportsman’s Paradise, and it is also home to some of the nation’s most active grassroots gun rights activists, which is why the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is honored to welcome the Louisiana Shooting Association (LSA) as a new affiliate. Headquartered in Slidell, the LSA notes on its website that it is an organization “to which affiliated clubs look for service, competition sponsorship, instruction, and help in any field of the shooting

BELLEVUE, WA – Today, September 17, 2025 is “Constitution Day,” commemorating the 238th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution by delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and all Americans should celebrate this significant date in world history, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) declared. “This is a special date,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “recognizing the adoption of our Constitution, which is not just the foundation of our government, but a contract between government and all of the

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is pleased to welcome our newest affiliate organization in the Northeast, the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, one of the best grassroots groups in that part of the country. “I’m personally delighted that CCDL has joined as an affiliate,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Headed by our old friend Holly Sullivan, we know that when things are happening in Connecticut, she’s going to be right there on the front lines. She’s got