BELLEVUE, WA – The anti-gun-rights Brady group, which previously endorsed Eric Swalwell for Congress and honored him as a guest speaker at a 2024 gala awards event—the same night he allegedly assaulted his female aide—has erased his name from its website and a video of the event has reportedly vanished from its YouTube page, but the taint of their past association remains, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

The New York Post is reporting about Swalwell’s appearance at the Brady Campaign event, and what allegedly followed. When allegations surfaced about Swalwell, the Brady Campaign scrubbed all references to him, and called for his resignation. But CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb says the gun prohibition lobbying organization cannot erase history.

“Brady United and Swalwell were best friends until these lurid allegations surfaced,” Gottlieb stressed. “While Swalwell is entitled to a presumption of innocence and due process, that’s certainly not the way the Brady organization has treated gun owners in general.

“By pushing background checks, waiting periods and other extremist gun control measures,” he detailed, “Brady makes it clear they consider all gun owners and gun buyers guilty until proven innocent. Instead, maybe they should background check who they work with.

“The Brady group repeatedly endorsed Swalwell and worked with him, invited him to speak at their New York gala and happily supported his gun ban proposals,” Gottlieb continued, “but quickly abandoned him and tried to make their association disappear. We’re not going to let that happen.

“Maybe the Brady group should change its title to the ‘Brady Campaign to Prevent Sexual Violence,’” Gottlieb suggested, “especially since guns don’t commit violence, people do. They’re essentially shooting him in the back and burying him in an unmarked grave.

“What Swalwell allegedly did was despicable,” Gottlieb observed. “What the Brady Campaign is doing—making his name invisible on their website—is both cowardly and futile. History has recorded their past association, and that’s a stain you cannot wash away.”

BELLEVUE, WA – Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to amend House Bill 1525 is a legislative trainwreck which raises the minimum age to purchase and possess certain firearms by young adults under age 21, many of whom already own such guns, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

Where Gov. Spanberger’s effort could—and should—justifiably collapse is her addition of an emergency declaration at the end of her amended bill. Under the Virginia Constitution, an emergency expressed in the body of a bill requires a vote of four-fifths of the members voting in each house. Because of the vote split in both the House and Senate, Spanberger’s amended HB 1525 might not be approved.

“In her zeal to enact stricter gun controls,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “Governor Spanberger may have fatally wounded her amended legislation.”

In the governor’s news release regarding this measure, her office states that Spanberger’s amendments to HB 1525 “direct Virginia State Police to resume background checks on private sales of firearms, as well as make these bills consistent with the House Bill 217 and Senate Bill 749.”

“Governor Spanberger has already been warned by the U.S. Department of Justice against enacting legislation which would infringe on the Second Amendment rights of citizens,” Gottlieb noted. “Young adults in the 18-to-20-year age group are citizens who have reached the legal age of majority. They can vote, run for office, enlist in the military, start businesses, sign contracts, get married and start families, so pressing an amended version of legislation already passed by Virginia lawmakers by raising the minimum age to purchase certain firearms—and declaring it an emergency—is definitely not only the wrong approach, but blatant age discrimination.

“The governor is playing to her far-left fringe constituents,” Gottlieb added. “That may play well on left-wing Internet sites, but it could spark federal legal action which has already been threatened. Spanberger obviously took office with the intention of positioning herself as a champion of restrictive gun control. That strategy just might backfire.”

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is applauding the Kentucky Legislature for overriding Governor Andy Beshear’s vetoes of two pro-Second Amendment bills, sending a message that the rights of law-abiding citizens outweigh the stroke of a prejudiced, partisan pen.

Democrat Beshear had vetoed House Bill 78 and House Bill 312, following an anti-gun-rights party line rather than principle. HB 78 establishes liability protections from frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufacturers, distributors and retailers involving specified legal actions arising from criminal or unlawful use of firearms or ammunition. HB 312 authorizes the Kentucky State Police (KSP) to issue provisional licenses to young adults in the 18-to-20-year age group so they may carry concealed firearms and other deadly weapons for personal protection.

“We are both delighted and proud of the Kentucky legislators who returned to Frankfort for these important votes,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “By overriding Gov. Beshear’s vetoes, lawmakers in the Bluegrass State have exercised common sense by rejecting political nonsense, which prefers to penalize a lawful industry for criminal misuse of its products, while also practicing age discrimination against young adults by denying them their full rights of citizenship.

“What happened in Kentucky should be considered a signal to the anti-rights extremists to stop blaming an entire industry for the country’s violent crime problem,” he continued, “and to also stop restricting the rights of an entire age class, which can serve in the military, start businesses, get married and run for office.

“We chastised Gov. Beshear for following his party’s anti-gun-rights dogma when he vetoed House Bill 312 earlier this month,” Gottlieb said, “and we’re grateful the legislature responded to our call to override that veto. While the governor has opposed a ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ and believes in reforming current law to allow medical marijuana users to retain their Second Amendment rights, he was wrong on these vetoes. We congratulate Kentucky legislators for making things right.”