CCRKBA HONORS AWR HAWKINS AS âGUN RIGHTS DEFENDER OF YEARâ From: Friday, December 18th, 2020 BELLEVUE, WA â The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced today the recipient of the 2020 âGun Rights Defender of the Yearâ award is veteran writer and military historian AWR Hawkins. Hawkins earned a Masterâs Degree in U.S. History at West Texas A&M in 2003 and his Ph.D in U.S. Military History at Texas Tech University in 2009, and he has been an adjunct professor of history at Norwich University since 2012. He is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, where he has worked for more than 10 years, and his byline has also appeared at AmmoLand Shooting Sports News, the Daily Caller, Brussels Journal, and Towhall. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and the writer/curator of âDown Range with AWR Hawkins,â a weekly newsletter for Breitbart discussing Second Amendment issues.