BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today announced that Washington Free Beacon writer Stephen Gutowski is this year’s recipient of its “Bill of Rights” award. “There is more to the Bill of Rights than the Second Amendment,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “There’s also a First Amendment, and Stephen Gutowski exercises and defends both on a daily basis. He represents the best in professional journalism, asking the right questions, raising the right issues and putting it all

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has announced the winner of its “Affiliate of the Year” award is the New Jersey Second Amendment Society. Established in 2010 NJ2AS “is an up-and-coming organization of Garden State gun rights activists who have seen a pretty busy year,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “They joined in a lawsuit against the Draconian concealed carry regulatory scheme, putting the state on the spot for essentially enforcing a law that keeps law-abiding New

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced today the recipient of the 2020 “Gun Rights Defender of the Year” award is veteran writer and military historian AWR Hawkins. Hawkins earned a Master’s Degree in U.S. History at West Texas A&M in 2003 and his Ph.D in U.S. Military History at Texas Tech University in 2009, and he has been an adjunct professor of history at Norwich University since 2012. He is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has named Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, as Grassroots Activist of the Year for 2020.  The veteran Big Sky Country gun rights advocate spearheaded this year’s successful passage of LR 130, a measure that strengthened Montana’s state firearms preemption law. Marbut and MSSA not only successfully defeated a $2 million campaign opposing LR 130, they did it without spending any money, which was a remarkable feat. To fight

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has announced the winner of its prestigious “Grassroots Organization of the Year” award is the Virginia Citizens Defense League. CCRKBA traditionally announces the awards during the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference awards luncheon, but this year’s GRPC was totally online this year due to the COVID-19 outbreak, so there was no luncheon program. But that isn’t preventing the national grassroots group from honoring people and organizations that have done outstanding work

BELLEVUE, WA – Skyrocketing murder rates in several major American cities with strict gun laws offer hard evidence that gun control isn’t just a failed policy, it’s a disaster, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. More than 700 people have been murdered in Chicago so far this year. Baltimore’s total is above 335, and Philadelphia has logged more than 450 slayings. Even relatively benign Seattle has nearly doubled the number of homicides it reported for all of 2019,

BELLEVUE, WA – The arrest of an armed convicted felon by Seattle Police this week shouldn’t surprise anyone other than those who supported a pair of gun control initiatives pushed by a billionaire-backed Seattle gun control group, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “When the gun prohibition lobby spent more than $10 million to pass Initiative 594 back in 2014, we warned voters it wouldn’t prevent criminals from getting guns,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “That measure mandated

BELLEVUE, WA – A new Rasmussen poll showing an overwhelming majority of Americans who have added a gun in their home since the Black Lives Matter anti-police protests started six months ago “feel safer” comes as no surprise, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. “Perhaps the most important revelation in this survey,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “is that 39 percent of Democrats own guns, which means Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are alienating a huge bloc of

Our state affiliate, the Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA) is the primary advocate for Montana gun owners.MSSA is officially requesting specific CCRKBA assistance on an important project that MSSA has launched in relation to the upcoming General Election. We ask all of  our supporters in Montana to participate in MSSA’s green card program.  Details about this program are available at:http://progunleaders.org/LR-130/ LR-130.  This is a legislative referendum (from MSSA’s HB 357) to close loopholes in Montana’s preemption law at 45-8-351, M.C.A.  It will be on the ballot

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has added two new members to its Board of Directors following the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference, according to CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “We’re delighted to welcome Dan Zelenka and Cam Edwards to help guide the Citizens Committee through what could be some very interesting times ahead,” Gottlieb stated. Zelenka is an attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana and president of the Louisiana Shooting Association. He was a speaker during the gun rights