BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today is calling on the Chicago Archdiocese to conduct a full, impartial and public investigation into whether anti-gun Father Michael Pfleger employs armed security, following the arrest of a man outside of the cleric’s church more than a week ago.

“The man arrested outside Pfleger’s St. Sabina church was carrying a firearm with an expired Firearm Owner’s Identification card, which gun owners must have in Illinois,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “A church spokesperson has said the man is not a ‘bodyguard’ for the outspoken Catholic priest. Well, we want to know exactly what he was doing outside that church, with a firearm, since he’s been described as Pfleger’s security and has apparently been with Pfleger at several community events.

“If Pfleger has an armed bodyguard while he travels around pushing to disarm everyone else,” Gottlieb added, “then he is a hypocrite of the highest order. Somebody should remind Pfleger that it is a sin to lie.”

According to at least two published reports, a man identified as Henry Eugene Hale was arrested outside Pfleger’s church on May 28.