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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.

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms joined five other leading gun rights organizations blasting some of the nation’s largest banking institutions for participating in “a brazen and ideologically driven campaign to undermine the Constitutionally protected right of all Americans to keep and bear arms.” The bombshell letter lays bare efforts to damage conservatives and

BELLEVUE, WA – Louisiana has been nicknamed The Sportsman’s Paradise, and it is also home to some of the nation’s most active grassroots gun rights activists, which is why the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is honored to welcome the Louisiana Shooting Association (LSA) as a new affiliate. Headquartered in Slidell, the LSA notes on its website

BELLEVUE, WA – Today, September 17, 2025 is “Constitution Day,” commemorating the 238th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution by delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and all Americans should celebrate this significant date in world history, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) declared. “This is a special date,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “recognizing

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is pleased to welcome our newest affiliate organization in the Northeast, the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, one of the best grassroots groups in that part of the country. “I’m personally delighted that CCDL has joined as an affiliate,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Headed by our old friend

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing a unanimous ruling by a three-judge appeals court panel in Florida which strikes down the state’s Open Carry ban as unconstitutional, reversing the conviction of gun rights activist Stanley V. McDaniels and vacating his sentence. McDaniels was arrested on July 4, 2022 for openly carrying a

BELLEVUE, WA – When U.S. District Judge James L. Robart sentenced Kenan Dejuan Brown to prison for illegal firearm possession, he told the repeat offender—who said he “felt safe” having a gun—that, “In my experience a gun is an invitation to get into trouble,” according to a Justice Department news release. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

BELLEVUE, WA – One of the nation’s oldest and most active state gun rights organizations—the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA), founded in 1875—is among the stalwarts of affiliate groups working with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. CRPA, with its tens of thousands of members, is a non-profit membership and donor-supported organization, with a diverse cross-section

BELLEVUE, WA – The outcome of a terror attack at bus stop in Israel, which saw an off-duty Israeli soldier and an unknown number of armed civilians fatally shoot two Palestinian gunmen underscores the importance of an armed citizenry, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed. The Monday attack left at least six people dead and a

BELLEVUE, WA – Since it was founded in 1998, the Oregon Firearms Federation (OFF) has epitomized grassroots activism, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is pleased to announce the organization is our newest Beaver State affiliate. “Especially over the past few years, with all of the anti-gun-rights activity in Salem and Portland, we can say without