BELLEVUE, WA – A Massachusetts Appeals Court panel unanimously “made the right call” in ruling a wife cannot be denied an application for a license to carry (LTC) because of past incidents involving her husband, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed. In the case of Guinane v. Chief of Police of Manchester-by-the-Sea, the three-judge panel reversed lower court rulings and ordered that Barbara Guinane’s application for a license to carry be granted, even though her husband’s LTC had been

BELLEVUE, WA – The announcement by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon that the Justice Department has filed an amicus brief in the case of Rhode v. Bonta, challenging California’s background check requirement for ammunition purchases, has been greeted with delight by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb noted how this amicus submission strongly reinforces DOJ’s previously-announced commitment to protect the Second Amendment. The plaintiffs won at the District Court level, and again before a three-judge panel

BELLEVUE, WA – Civil unrest in Iran has resulted in the arrest of “an unspecified number of people,” according to Reuters, some of whom were allegedly building homemade pistols, underscoring what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms calls a classic example of oppressed people using their skills to fight back against a tyrannical regime. Several people have reportedly been killed in the unrest, according to various news agencies, and Ayatollah Khamenei allegedly already has a plan to “flee the country”

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is cheering the ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down California’s ban on open carry in urban areas, which is a serious blow to the state’s effort to trample the Second Amendment rights of its citizens. The case is known as Baird v. Bonta. The 2-1 majority opinion was authored by Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a 2020 Donald Trump appointee. He was joined

BELLEVUE, WA – California’s mandatory background check requirement for ammunition purchases, which falsely rejects more than 10 percent of qualified buyers, is unconstitutional, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says in an amicus brief submitted to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case known as Rhode v. Bonta. CCRKBA is joined by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Second Amendment Law Center. They are represented by SAF attorney Konstadinos T. Moros. “As we note in the brief,” said CCRKBA