BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing a new lawsuit filed in federal court in California, challenging Assembly Bill 1127, signed recently by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, which bans popular—and commonly used—Glock pistols in the state.

While CCRKBA is not a plaintiff in the new legal action, we are watching it closely because the court has already held that several provisions of the UHA likely violate the Second Amendment. That case is known as Renna v. Bonta, filed originally in November 2020 by CCRKBA and several others, noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. The Renna case challenged California’s “Unsafe Handgun Act” (UHA).

The new case was filed Monday by the Second Amendment Foundation—CCRKBA’s sister organization—along with the National Rifle Association and Firearms Policy Coalition, all three parties to the earlier legal action, plus one firearms retailer and two private citizens. The case is known as Jaymes v. Bonta, and was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

“The court has already held that several provisions of the UHA likely violate the Second Amendment,” Gottlieb observed, “but instead of taking a hint from the court, Gov. Newsom has doubled down because of what can best be described as a case of handgun derangement syndrome by signing this new legislation. This new ban is flagrantly unconstitutional, and Newsom must know it.”

Gottlieb said Democrats in Sacramento evidently “didn’t get the memo” from the U.S. Supreme Court that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right, “so they passed AB 1127 and Newsom quickly signed it into law.” The CCRKBA chairman said Newsom and Democrats in the legislature appear determined to play a game of “one-upmanship” with the courts and the constitution.

“This may be a game for Newsom and the Democrats in Sacramento,” Gottlieb stated, “but defending the Second Amendment rights of California gun owners is not a game. This is not some kind of sporting match for Newsom’s amusement. You don’t fight crime by restricting the rights of peaceable, law-abiding citizens. We’re going to closely monitor this legal action, and based on previous results, we expect the court to act decisively.”

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BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) “with respect to the untaxed firearms it purports to regulate” and “with respect to suppressors and short-barreled rifles” on Second Amendment grounds.

CCRKBA is joined by the FPC Action Foundation, Texas State Rifle Association, Hot Shots Custom, and three private citizens, all Texas residents. They are represented by attorneys R. Brent Cooper at Cooper & Scully in Dallas, Texas, and David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson and Nicholas A. Varone at Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C.

Named as defendants are the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Department of Justice, and Acting ATF Director Daniel P. Driscoll and Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in their official capacities. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division.

The 32-page complaint alleges the NFA, which is described by the court as “an interrelated statutory system for the taxation of certain firearms,” no longer meets its purpose under the constitution because passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” eliminated taxes with respect to manufacturing, transferring and receiving products defined as “firearms” or “any other weapons” under the NFA. However, now that the taxes have been eliminated for nearly all firearms covered by the NFA except for machineguns and “destructive devices,” the firearms are still subject to registration and regulation under provisions in the NFA.

“Simply put,” explained CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “because the taxes have been eliminated, the NFA, with regard to nearly all of the affected firearms, has really outlived its regulatory usefulness under Congress’ enumerated powers.

“Likewise,” he added, “if suppressors and short-barreled rifles qualify as arms, they are protected by the Second Amendment, and the government must now prove a historical tradition of regulating such arms. However, no such regulatory tradition exists, so further regulation by the ATF is unconstitutional. We’re asking the court to declare further regulation of these now-untaxed firearms, and of suppressors and short-barreled rifles is unconstitutional, and should be enjoined.”

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BELLEVUE, WA – Less than 24 hours after the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued a scathing news release condemning Everytown for Gun Safety’s June endorsement of Democrat Jay Jones, who is now under fire for suggesting a political rival should have been shot in the head along with his children, the news release about that endorsement has vanished from Everytown’s website.

“There’s been no announcement the endorsement was withdrawn,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and not a word about whether Everytown has asked the Jones campaign to return the $200,000 contribution made to his campaign in August. All that appears to have happened is that the billionaire-backed organization is trying to hide their support of Jones from public view after we reported it in our statement Tuesday.”

Gottlieb also noted that news of the endorsement was publicized by articles in TheGunMag.com, a publication owned by CCRKBA’s sister organization, the Second Amendment Foundation, and by Ammoland News, courtesy of  a report by TGM Editor Dave Workman. Both stories were widely circulated via social media.

“Once their hypocrisy was exposed,” Gottlieb said, “Everytown obviously scrambled to erase the evidence. Try the link to their news release, which was included in TGM and Ammoland reports, and you get the message ‘Page Not Found.’ Still Everytown’s embarrassing exposure is out there for all to see, including the fact that the organization, which is supported by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg and other wealthy elitists, gave Jones a big check to help buy the election for the next Virginia attorney general.”

Jones is getting support from other Democrats, who apparently don’t care that he suggested in text messages three years ago that then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, should “get two bullets to the head.”

“Once again,” Gottlieb observed, “the Democrat double-standard is being applied to the Jones controversy, and Everytown’s endorsement still hasn’t been withdrawn. It’s just been hidden from view. If these people didn’t live by the double-standard, they would have no standards at all, and now everybody knows it.”

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BELLEVUE, WA – Everytown for Gun Safety’s political hypocrisy is on full display as it remains silent on reported remarks made by Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, to whose campaign it has contributed $200,000, fantasizing about the shooting of a political rival and his children three years ago, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

“Apparently,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed, “it’s okay for one of Everytown’s so-called ‘gun sense’ candidates to exchange text messages about shooting a former Virginia House speaker in the head. After all, why else would Everytown give $200,000 to the man’s political campaign? What’s even more bizarre, and downright disturbing, is that Jones is running for the office of Virginia attorney general, the commonwealth’s top law enforcement officer.

“But the macabre nature of Jones’ acknowledged remarks and Everytown’s silence underscores the depravity of the gun  prohibition lobby’s double standard,” he continued. “We’ve seen where some people are trying to downplay his remarks as a private conversation, but suggesting that a political rival ‘gets two bullets to the head’ is not the kind of thing said casually by a person now campaigning to be the Virginia attorney general.

“Clearly from the size of its contribution to the Jones campaign,” Gottlieb noted, “the nation’s wealthiest gun prohibition lobbying group wants to buy this guy a victory in the November election. Maybe Everytown is hoping that if it remains silent, people will overlook or soon forget its June endorsement of Jones, and not make a connection between this embarrassment and Everytown’s $1 million advertising campaign supporting another Democrat anti-gunner—former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, who is now running to be Virginia’s next governor. She has already made pronouncements about the gun control legislation she will sign if elected.

“It is obvious the only thing Everytown is concerned about is getting anti-gunners elected to public office,” Gottlieb stated. “We’re appalled, but hardly surprised, at Everytown. An organization so determined to buy away our constitutional rights, one election at a time, doesn’t care who it brings along to do its bidding.”

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