BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says legislation just introduced in the Rhode Island General Assembly to ban so-called “assault weapons” should be rejected, and is calling on its members in the state to demand as much from their elected representatives. The bill, H-5436, targets virtually every self-loading rifle, regardless of caliber, capable of accepting detachable magazines. Only semi-automatic rifles of .22-caliber rimfire with tubular magazines would be exempt from the proposed ban. “The authors of this legislation

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is encouraging American gun owners to support a new House bill which would ban the use of special “Merchant Category Codes” (MCC) which track gun and ammunition purchases made with credit cards. The legislation, known as the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act (PPPA), was introduced by freshman U.S. Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) and 25 House colleagues. It is a response to efforts by anti-gunners to track such sales, which essentially create

BELLEVUE, WA – The Democratic National Committee has just destroyed whatever remaining shreds of credibility it may have had on the gun issue by electing David Hogg, the 24-year-old gun control extremist, as its vice chairman, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. “David Hogg has become one of the nation’s most extremely outspoken—and attention seeking—gun control zealots in recent memory,” noted CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb. “Since becoming a media darling following the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland,

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling upon the nation’s gun owners and citizens concerned about violent crime in a national television ad to sign a Petition to Congress and urge their representatives to support the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. “President Donald Trump has promised to sign this legislation if and when it reaches his desk,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and America’s gun owners and concerned citizens can make that happen by flooding Capitol

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is congratulating President Donald Trump for quickly following through on a promise to shut down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was a thinly disguised Biden administration gun control operation. “This gun control bureaucracy had no place in the White House, and it should never have been created,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Its supporters are having fits on the Internet, which convinces us that President Trump’s swift

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the newly-introduced Second Amendment Guarantee Act (SAGA) by U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) “is a timely proposal that deserves passage.” Congresswoman Tenney’s proposal would prohibit the states from banning the manufacture, sale, importation, or possession of any rifle or shotgun that is lawfully permitted under federal law, according to a statement from her office. The measure is co-sponsored by Reps. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Nick Langworthy (R-NY). “This important legislation comes

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms applauds Congressman Ben Cline (R-Virginia) for introducing H.R. 404, the Hearing Protection Act, and is encouraging the nation’s gun owners to support this timely legislation. The Hearing Protection Act would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove suppressors from the definition of firearms, according to the bill, and from regulation under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA). “Similar legislation has been proposed in the past,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb,

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is throwing its support behind national concealed carry reciprocity legislation introduced this week by Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC), chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee. President-elect Donald J. Trump, who will be inaugurated Jan. 20, has already promised to sign a reciprocity bill if it reaches his desk. “The time is long past due for this nation to enter the 21st Century by recognizing the right to bear arms doesn’t stop at

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BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says California’s new law requiring firearms dealers to provide gun buyers with a pamphlet warning about the dangers of gun ownership amounts to “legislative social bigotry.” “This new law, AB 1598, is just another effort by anti-gun Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to discourage Californians from exercising their constitutional right to become gun owners,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “At what point do Californians tell lawmakers in Sacramento they’ve had enough of