FreeGuns.biz Helps Visitors Legally Obtain Handguns Without a Background Check or Serial Numbers FreeGuns.biz offers details on manufacturing handguns, machine guns and silencers as well as information about legal issues and rights. ORANGE COUNTRY, Calif., May 7, 2013 – With the media and politicians screaming for more and more gun control legislation, it’s becoming increasingly [...]
CA Gov. Brown Signs SB 140, Sen. Leno’s Raid on Firearm Background Check Funds In the middle of California’s firearm acquisition and background check crisis, $24 Million firearm background check fund is re-appropriated to other DOJ projects. SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 1, 2013 – Governor Jerry Brown today signed Senator Mark Leno and Senate President pro [...]
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CCRKBA To Piers Morgan: ‘Your Plane Is Waiting’ BELLEVUE, Wash., April 18, 2013 – Late last year, CNN’s Piers Morgan threatened to “deport” himself if the United States did not dramatically change its gun laws, and this morning, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggested that he pack his bags. [...]
California Gun Owners Have Reason to be Hopeful — and Proud by Brandon Combs SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 17, 2013 – Yesterday, the California Senate Public Safety Committee passed a number of extreme anti-gun measures, ranging from outright bans on guns and magazines, to ammunition seller and purchaser permits, to a “kick-the-can” bill granting municipalities the [...]
Statement By U.S. Conference Of Mayors President Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter On The Senate’s Rejection Of Feinstein Assault Weapons Ban, Toomey-Manchin Background Check, And Other Amendments To Reduce Gun Violence WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 – United States Conference of Mayors President Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter issued the following statement after the Senate’s rejection today [...]
Ceceilia Berkowitz is officially a Leading Candidate for NYC Mayor 2013 Ceceilia Berkowitz, MBA and Wharton alum, is candidate for Mayor. A Finance Professor / Business woman with a Bloomberg Personality. Twitter @ceceilia NEW YORK, April 15, 2013 – Ceceilia Berkowitz, a 35 year old single professional, announces candidacy for NYC Mayor 2013. A resident [...]
Schumer Lies About Alternative Gun Bill Reveal His Extremist Views, Says CCRKBA BELLEVUE, Wash., April 15, 2013 – New York Senator Charles Schumer ‘s remarks over the weekend about provisions that could be added to an alternative bill regarding background checks are “demonstrably false and delusional,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and [...]
Gun Violence Survivors And Gun Policy Experts Available To Discuss Cloture Vote On Manchin-Toomey Background Check Bill WASHINGTON, April 11, 2013 – The following individuals are available for interviews from Washington DC today, many of whom will be present at the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to debate on S. 649. After the [...]
CCRKBA Calls for Universal Background Checks on All Elected Officials BELLEVUE, Wash., April 10, 2013 – “If politicians want universal background checks, we should start with them,” said Alan Gottlieb , chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He pointed to recent political scandals in the New York Legislature, [...]
Statements On Maryland Legislature’s Passage Of Assault Weapons Ban And Limits On Ammunition Magazines State’s Gun Reform Package Will Reduce Gun Violence, Protect Maryland Families and Law Enforcement Officers, and Help Save Lives; www.DemandAction.org NEW YORK, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Following the Maryland Legislature’s passage of gun safety legislation that includes a ban on military-style assault weapons [...]
Official Statement: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s Reaction to NRA Announcement on School Shields WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013 – National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre and the gun industry lobbyists and special interests continue to degrade the memory of gun violence victims and the dignity of American citizens by suggesting that [...]
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013 – Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, released the statement below in response to the report commissioned by the National Rifle Association: “Why is the NRA afraid of the truth? The truth is there is no evidence that armed guards or police officers in schools make children safer. [...]
More than 120 Events Taking Place Across the Country in Largest Day of Advocacy in U.S. History to Address Gun Violence; www.DemandAction.org/March28 NEW YORK, March 28, 2013 – President Obama will meet with gun violence survivors, law enforcement officials and mothers to call on Congress to reform U.S. gun laws at the White House today [...]
Flint Leaders Call On Congress To End Gun Violence As Part Of National Day To Demand Action Mayors Against Illegal Guns Releases First Ad Featuring Newtown Family Members Demanding Political Leaders Pass Commonsense Reforms More than 120 Events Taking Place Across the Nation – and The White House – to Drive Largest Day of Advocacy [...]
Oscar-nominated actor joins growing chorus in support of the Arms Trade Treaty Djimon Hounsou joins other celebrities, Nobel Laureates, retired generals, and faith leaders to urge President Obama to endorse critical treaty WASHINGTON, March 14, 2013 – As the United Nations gears up for a final round of negotiations on the international Arms Trade Treaty, [...]
Informa Investment Announces Latest Top Guns List A strong year for a wide range of equities and fixed income investments rewards risk takers with outsized returns. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 11, 2013 – Informa Investment Solutions (“Informa”), a division of Informa plc (LSE: INF) and leading provider of software and strategic solutions to the financial [...]
Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Background Checks Fact Sheet and Charts NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2013 – The following is released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Dear Editors and Producers, On behalf of a bipartisan coalition of more than 850 Mayors Against Illegal Guns and more than 1.2 million Americans who strongly support expanded background checks [...]
Expert Panel Event: How HB 77 Would Make It Harder for Criminals to Obtain Guns in New Mexico Mayor Coss to Host Roundtable Discussion on Thursday SANTA FE, N.M., Feb. 27, 2013 – As the national push for sensible gun laws presses on, New Mexico state lawmakers are currently considering legislation (HB 77) that would [...]
Security Expert Responds to Arizona Gun Bill SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22, 2013 – Two days ago Arizona proposed a bill to allow teachers and administrators to carry weapons to defend students. While the details of this bill are extensive, the initial proposal caught the attention of security expert James Vierra , CEO of The Kingdom [...]
New Comprehensive Study Of Mass Shootings Reveals Prevalence Of Mass Shootings, Role Of Assault Weapons And Strong Connection Between Domestic Violence And Guns 57% of Shootings Involve Domestic Violence; Fewer than 1% of Gun Murder Victims Killed in Mass Shootings; Assault Weapons Put the “Mass” in “Mass Shooting” NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2013 – Mayors Against [...]
Mother of Slain Chicago Teen Hadiya Pendleton Demands That Congress Take Action To End Gun Violence in New PSA Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, Mother of 15-Year-Old Teen Gunned Down After Performing at President Obama’s Inauguration, Says Now is the Time for Common-Sense Gun Law Reforms NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2013 – Mayors Against Illegal Guns today released [...]
ISRA: Lawful Illinois Gun Owners Can Expect Scolding From Obama This Friday SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 13, 2013 – The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA): Law-abiding Illinois firearm owners can expect to take it on the chin Friday as Obama brings his gun control road show to the windy city. [...]
One Million Moms For Gun Control’s “Moms Demand Action Week” Will Pressure Congress To Pass Stronger Gun Laws American Moms to Reach Out to Congress Every Day Week of Feb. 18; Outreach to be Captured and Publicized Via Social Media INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 11, 2013 – One Million Moms for Gun Control announced today a week-long [...]
The Nation’s Mayors Respond To President Obama’s State Of The Union Address Statement From The U.S. Conference of Mayors President Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2013 – USCM President Philadelphia (PA) Mayor Michael A. Nutter today released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “The nation’s mayors [...]
One Million Moms for Gun Control Statement on the President’s State of the Union Address INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 12, 2013 – We are grateful that tonight in his State of the Union address, President Obama called again for Congress to pass a comprehensive gun violence prevention package to help protect American families. There is much work [...]
BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 12, 2013 – President Barack Obama and Democrat cronies are packing tonight’s State of the Union address in the House Chambers with crime victims in an attempt to push the administration’s gun ban agenda, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Press reports say Democrat House [...]
Americans Affected by Gun Violence in Washington This Week to Demand That Congress Take Action to End Gun Violence 120 Survivors and Family Members in DC as Part of Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ Demand A Plan Campaign; www.DemandAPlan.org More than Twenty Survivors and Family Members Attending State of the Union WASHINGTON, Feb.12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ [...]
New Jersey’s Answer To Newtown: Ban Shotguns, Hunting Ammo, Give Nurses Power To Seize Guns??? TRENTON, NJ, Feb. 11, 2013 – The Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC) today blasted the posting of 24 off-target gun bills for a vote at an upcoming meeting of the New Jersey Assembly Law and Public [...]
My Virtual Neighbor Reports True Story Regarding Neighbors and Gun Control HOUSTON, Feb. 11, 2013 – The driving force of My Virtual Neighbor is safety. We believe that communication between neighbors can decrease crime and increase awareness about neighbors who armed and helpful and those who are armed and dangerous. We thought it was worth [...]
Pro Football Legends and Hall of Famers Demand That Washington Take Action to End Gun Violence in New PSA Marshall Faulk , Michael Irvin , Deion Sanders , Emmitt Smith and LaDainian Tomlinson Say Now is the Time for Common-Sense Gun Law Reforms; www.DemandAPlan.org NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2013 – Mayors Against Illegal Guns today [...]
Gun Owners Need to Enact All Possible Precautions LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2013 – As the nationwide debate about firearms surges, so do the sales of fire arms in California and around the country. This is an issue every personal injury lawyer deals with on some level, and the Law Offices of Burg and Brock [...]
Poll: 52 Percent of Americans Say the Sandy Hook Shooting Is Being Exploited Reason-Rupe poll finds 67 percent say the assault weapon ban would not have prevented the Newtown tragedy and 51 percent oppose an assault weapons ban LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30, 2013 – As gun rights are debated in the wake of the Sandy [...]
Black Women’s Agenda Announces Initiative Supporting Gun Control Legislation Organization to Launch “For the Love of Families” Initiative Encouraging Millions of Women to Make Their Voices Heard on Reducing Gun Violence WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2013 – Citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics indicating that in 2010 guns took the lives of over [...]
Press Ignores Lives Saved Because Of Firearms, Says CCRKBA BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 25, 2013 – In The month following the tragic Newtown school shooting, more than 65,000 people used firearms in self-defense, yet the national news media has virtually ignored this important aspect of gun ownership, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and [...]
Gun Control Activists are Targeting Your Guns. The Fight for our Rights has begun! Once again, anti-gun zealots are being joined by opportunistic politicians on both the federal and state levels to mobilize the destruction of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Find out what we are facing.
Civil Rights Leader Blasts Obama for Infringing on 2nd Amendment, While Leaving His Hometown A War Zone LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18, 2013 – Barely a month after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama used children as a backdrop to make sweeping gun proposals and violate the privacy of law-abiding [...]
Attorney Mark Bailey Speaks on ‘Gun Protection’ with Local Media and Classroom Instruction Defense attorney gives lessons on weapon safety and new Oklahoma gun laws at local firearm school. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 23, 2013 — Fittingly so, lead defense lawyer Mark Bailey spoke with Fox 25 news in an interview packed with weapon safety tips [...]
Mayors Against Illegal Guns Releases New Television Ad Demanding Action From Washington And Report On Gun Lobby Suppression Of Research On Gun Violence On One-Month Anniversary Of Newtown Shooting Mayors Across the Country Endorse Common-Sense Gun Reforms and Announce Ad Featuring Family Members of Gun Violence Victims; Co-Chair Mayor Bloomberg Releases ”Access Denied” Report at Johns Hopkins; Both [...]
NRA Calls for Armed Guards in Schools Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association announces the creation of the National School Shield Program and calls on government to put armed security officers in every school in the nation. N.R.A. Envisions ‘a Good Guy With a Gun’ in Every School
Governor Corbett Ceremonially Signs Straw Purchase Gun Law PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Jan. 11, 2013 – Governor Tom Corbett today ceremonially signed into law the Brad Fox Law or the Straw Purchase Gun bill, also known as House Bill 898. Corbett was joined at the ceremony by Rep. Marcy Toepel (R-Montgomery), who sponsored the legislation, and [...]
Children’s Defense Fund Debunks Gun Myths: The Truth About Guns, New Fact Sheet on Children and Guns Released WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2013 — Today, the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) released a new fact sheet that debunks common gun myths as part of its Protect Children, Not Guns campaign. “The Truth About Guns” counters popular misconceptions [...]
SAF Says Foes Of Self-defense Should Give Up Their Guns, Guards First BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 11, 2013 — The Second Amendment Foundation today challenged the nation’s leading opponents of gun ownership to “lead by example” and give up their own firearms and armed security before expecting the citizens, for whom they work, to surrender their [...]
CCRKBA To Brady Camp: ‘Yes It Is About The Second Amendment!’ BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 10, 2013 – The Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today issued a bristling response to Brady Campaign President Dan Gross , who insisted as he left the White House meeting with Vice President Joe Biden that [...]
Bloomberg ‘Half-Right,’ Says CCRKBA; Self-Defense Deserves Press Coverage, Too BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 4, 2013 Anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was “half-right” when he told NBC’s Jimmy Fallon that there is “scant coverage” of other firearms news, because there is virtually no coverage of self-defense uses every day, the Citizens Committee for the Right to [...]
‘Obama Right On Gun Ban; There Will Be Resistance,’ Says CCRKBA BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 31, 2012 — President Obama was absolutely correct when he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that “there will be resistance” to his extremist proposal to ban the most commonly-owned and popular rifles in America, the Citizens Committee for the Right [...]
Newtown Tragedy: NAMI Condemns NRA Position as “Outrageous and Wrong” Michael J. Fitzpatrick , executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has issued the following statement. ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 21, 2012 — “The National Rifle Association (NRA) response to last week’s tragedy in Newtown Connecticut—in which 20 children and six adults at [...]
Lifetime NRA member, hunter, security expert advocates assault weapon ban BRONX, N.Y., Dec. 20, 2012 – William Vassell, a lifetime NRA member, never questioned his support for the constitutional rights of gun owners. Then came the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn. In a flash, his support for the type of assault weapons used by Adam Lanza evaporated. “I once owned an [...]
One Million Moms For Gun Control Responds To NRA New Grassroots Organization Leveraging Power of Social Media INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 21, 2012 – The gun control advocacy group One Million Moms for Gun Control sent a letter to National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre today prior to his Fri., Dec., 21 press conference asking him to make a promise [...]
Statement Of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg On National Rifle Association Press Conference NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2012 — The following is a statement by Mayor Michael Bloomberg : “The NRA’s Washington leadership has long been out of step with its members, and never has that been so apparent as this morning. Their press conference was [...]
