BELLEVUE, WA – The U.S. edition of the Daily Mail, a British tabloid and online publication, has finally done what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has expected. The publication has dubbed the scoped hunting rifle used in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk a “high-powered sniper rifle.” “I’ve got to give the Daily Mail’s U.S. political reporter, Phillip Nieto, a little credit for revealing the depths of his anti-gun phobia,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “They weren’t even

BELLEVUE, WA – A stunning report alleging that many of the American-made guns showing up at Mexican crime scenes were originally purchased by the Mexican government should trigger an official investigation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is demanding. “Contrary to what America has been told for years—that Mexican crime guns are obtained illicitly from U.S. gun dealers thanks to lax gun laws here—it now appears the Mexican government may be a major source of those firearms,” said CCRKBA Chairman

BELLEVUE, WA – A remarkably candid article in The Trace, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun news publication, declares “gun violence” is trending downward, a scenario which tells the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that no further gun control laws are necessary. “Look at the information provided in this article, and it leads to only one conclusion,” stated CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “The Trace says violence involving firearms is ‘trending downward for more than three quarters of cities with the most shootings.’ This comes at a

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is delighted to welcome the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus as our newest affiliate in the North Star State, and just in time to celebrate the full transition of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center, which is scheduled to be fully effective by Nov. 1. Rob Doar, co-founder of the Caucus, will be president of the new law center, according to an announcement from the group. “With gun rights being under direct attack

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