BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms commends Englishtown. New Jersey for adopting a resolution that will provide financial relief to concealed carry holders. The action comes after CCRKBA sent a letter in support of the resolution to the mayor and borough council. Post-Bruen, New Jersey enacted a law that raised the permitting fee for a permit to carry to $200. The $200 permit is only good for two years, and the cost to carry is an example

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has sent a letter in support of the passage of a freedom-enhancing resolution in a New Jersey town. The Borough of Englishtown is considering a resolution which would refund a significant portion of applicants' permit to carry fees. New Jersey imposes a $200 fee for permits, however $150 of those fees go into the coffers of the municipality. “Aside from the severe constitutional questions New Jersey’s onerous $200 fee imposes upon

BELLEVUE, WA – Tuesday’s tragic school shooting in Graz, Austria not only refutes long standing arguments by the U.S. gun prohibition lobby that such crimes only happen in this country, but also destroys other contentions made by American anti-gunners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. The attack, at the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, claimed at least nine lives, and the alleged killer apparently took his own life, according to published reports. Details about the shooting, revealed by the BBC,

BELLEVUE, WA – Thursday morning’s unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to toss the Mexican government’s lawsuit against U.S. gun makers was the correct outcome of a case which was “nonsense in the first place,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. “This lawsuit,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “was yet another attempt, this time by a foreign government, to financially drain American firearms manufacturers. It collided with the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which the CCRKBA

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