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BELLEVUE, WA – With the presidential election just a few days away, polling data published by Fox News shows former President Donald Trump up by 6 points on a key issue for many voters: Gun rights. “This is a critical issue for millions of likely voters across the country,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “I

BELLEVUE, WA – John Petrolino, well-known author of “Decoding Firearms: An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety & Use,” and regular contributing writer at Ammoland News, Bearing Arms.com, and The Truth About Guns, has been elected to fill a position on the Board of Directors for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. A U.S. Merchant Marine officer, and an

BELLEVUE, WA – During a recent interview when Vice President Kamala Harris revealed she owns a Glock pistol, and has had it since her days as a prosecutor in California, she offered scant details about the handgun, where it is kept and how it is stored. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the public has a right to more know

BELLEVUE, WA – During the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference in San Diego, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms honored U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa as the “Gun Rights Defender of the Year” for 2024. Issa, a veteran Republican congressman from California who chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during the hearings and investigation of Operation Fast and Furious—the

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a hypocrite for signing a law barring local governments from requiring voter identification, while still expecting gun buyers to provide ID before exercising their Second Amendment rights. Democrat Newsom is a career anti-gunner who has supported every gun control measure to come along in Sacramento. He

BELLEVUE, WA – A resurfaced video of Kamala Harris telling a San Francisco press conference that authorities would “walk into” the private homes of gun owners to determine whether they were safely storing their firearms is an outrageous example of her anti-gun extremism, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in reaction. Harris, then serving as a district attorney in San

BELLEVUE, WA – The arrest of a man in connection with an alleged assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Florida has elicited calls from several sources for more gun control, but the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the incident actually provides more evidence that gun control laws simply don’t work. The suspect, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58,

BELLEVUE, WA – When she was running for the presidency in 2019, Kamala Harris advocated for the removal of school resource officers, describing it as an effort to “demilitarize” school campuses, but she has been silent on the subject after a resource officer stopped and arrested the accused shooter at Apalachee High School in Georgia. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms