BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has taken direct action regarding proposed training mandates in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by sending a letter to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS), opposing the requirements. CCRKBA board member John Petrolino’s letter reminds John H. Melander, Jr. at the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security in Boston that such a training requirement is unlikely to pass constitutional muster. “There are no training mandates in order to

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is highly disappointed that at this time the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear our important case challenging the ban on so-called “assault rifles” in the state of Maryland. CCRKBA joined with the Second Amendment Foundation and others in this case, known as Snope v. Brown. “However,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “it is encouraging Justice Brett Kavaaugh has signaled it is more than likely the Court will hear one

BELLEVUE, WA – The embarrassing exposure of a gun control activist’s tale about a school shooting in rural Pennsylvania which never happened illustrates just how far anti-gun fanatics will go in their crusade to disarm America, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. The dramatic tale of a school shooting at Dallas High School even found its way into a speech delivered by the author of this bogus report at the Kentucky state capitol in February, according to one published

BELLEVUE, WA – The intervention of a legally-armed private citizen Wednesday night in downtown Seattle stopped a dangerous criminal suspect and may have saved lives in a city which would love to disarm the public, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response. “Based on what we have learned about the incident,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “the armed Samaritan just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He apparently witnessed a brutal attack which

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms hailing a series of policy changes by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives which were announced with this statement: “This is not the same ATF of the last four years.” “We are delighted at what looks like a full reversal of ATF policies initiated under the Biden administration,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Under Biden, gun owners and the firearms industry were treated like enemies of the state.

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is delighted components of the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) have been included in the House version of Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” budget bill, and is hopeful this measure to remove suppressor regulation from the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 remains intact. CCRKBA was proud to sign onto a letter sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune encouraging inclusion of the HPA in this budget

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms joined a broad coalition of gun rights advocates and political leaders in what has so far been a successful effort to reform the 1934 National Firearms Act by removing suppressors from NFA regulation as part of the budget reconciliation package. In a letter to Congress members Jodey C. Arrington, chair of the House Budget Committee and Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Rules Committee, the coalition of nearly 100 Second Amendment

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling for an IRS investigation into a startling allegation made by former NRA President and Second Amendment champion Marion Hammer in a federal lawsuit in which she says an attorney representing the Brady gun control group allegedly offered her $5 million to “retire and cease advancing the interests of the NRA and defending the Second Amendment.” The allegation says the offer was made in 2018. According to language in the

BELLEVUE, WA – The Illinois House Gun Violence Prevention Committee is holding a public hearing today in Springfield on House Bill 3320, the so-called “Responsibility in Firearm Legislation (RIFL) Act, and Prairie State gun owners are encouraged to contact committee members and ask them to reject this measure. “This bill requires firearms manufacturers, importers and retailers to obtain a state license in order to sell their products to Illinois residents,” explained Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear

BELLEVUE, WA – The Democratic National Committee can say whatever they want about calling for a new election which could replace gun ban activist David Hogg as vice chair, but the fact remains he quickly became a pain in the political neck and everybody knows it, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. Hogg has been in office less than six months and he has already started a civil war within the party which veteran strategist James Carville was smart