The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) on Wednesday sued the City of Seattle, alleging a violation of the state Public Records Act for refusing to disclose revenue data related to the city’s controversial “gun violence tax” that was adopted last year. The complaint stems from a PRA request earlier this year by the senior editor of […]
Washington State AG Wants Gun Ban, CCRKBA Chairman Responds
When Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that he will propose legislation to ban so-called “assault weapons,” the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms had a blistering response. “Unfortunately,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “Washington state has an attorney general that attacks constitutional rights instead of defending […]
Could These be Solutions to Windy City Slaughter?
A leading national gun rights organization and a couple of Chicago-area state lawmakers may have offered sensible solutions to the Windy City’s ongoing mayhem that took ten lives and left 57 people wounded over the weekend. Importantly, the gun group and the legislators come at the problem from different angles, and there has been no collaboration. […]
Apple Changes Handgun Emoji And This Group Bristles
The announcement by Apple that it is replacing a cartoon emoji of a revolver with a cartoon squirt gun brought a blistering reaction from one of the nation’s leading Second Amendment organizations. The Second Amendment Foundation called the decision “a combination of childishness and anti-gun demagoguery.” SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb […]
New Gun Ban Push Launched In Washington, Oregon
Gun prohibition lobbying groups in Oregon and Washington have launched an effort to push for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” in the respective state legislatures next year, and a Northwest-base gun rights organization says the proposal is all flash and no substance. Washington Ceasefire and Ceasefire Oregon held a Wednesday press conference in Seattle […]
Mass. AG Just Confirmed What Gun Rights Advocates Have Said All Along
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey just confirmed what Second Amendment advocates have been saying all along, that anti-gunners really do want to ban firearms. Healey, a Democrat, unilaterally declared this week that “If a gun’s operating system is essentially the same as that of a banned weapon, or if the gun has components that are […]