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

BELLEVUE, WA – In what may be the first time in history, the United States has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in full support of petitioners in a case challenging the constitutionality of a state gun control law under the Second Amendment, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms offers kudos to the Trump administration for making it happen. The case is known as Wolford v. Lopez, and it pits the State of Hawaii squarely against

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched an online petition calling on Attorney General Pamela Bondi to launch investigations into restrictive gun control laws in a dozen states, and “to ultimately seek injunctions and/or restraining orders against any and all state laws and local regulations which are determined to infringe and/or impair the exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment.” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the petition will underscore the widespread public interest in the

BELLEVUE, WA – This Saturday, April 19, 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the date which could easily be recognized as the birthday of the Second Amendment, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms calls on all freedom-loving Americans to join in the celebration. “April 19th marks that day in history when the government of the era sent troops to seize the arms of Americans, and our ancestors replied with a decisive ‘No’,” said

BELLEVUE, WA – As U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sets the course of action for the Justice Department’s newly-announced “Second Amendment Task Force,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has suggested in a letter that she unleash the new group on a dozen Democrat-controlled states which have adopted extremely restrictive gun control laws. In his letter to Bondi, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb writes, “I would like to suggest that among the Task Force’s priorities might be to examine the patterns

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding President Donald Trump’s appointment of Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, replacing FBI Director Kash Patel, who had been filling that role temporarily since early February. “President Trump’s decision to appoint Acting Director Driscoll is indicative of his resolve to protect Second Amendment rights and bring much needed  reform to the ATF,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Mr. Patel

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing the decision by Attorney General Pamela Bondi to create a Second Amendment Task Force within the Department of Justice “to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.” Bondi issued a memorandum to all DOJ employees on Tuesday. In her memo, the AG Bondi stated, “For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms,