Dean is an outspoken defender of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and an accomplished writer and reporter for AmmoLand Shooting Sports News and his blog gunwatch.blogspot.com
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973.
He taught the Arizona concealed & carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The number of people killed in Japan by wild bears broke records this years. It is now more than twice the previous record breaking year. More people are killed by bears in Japan than in the United States of America.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers for November 2025 show a 7% decrease in firearm sales and a 20% decrease in NICS checks compared to November 2024.
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80% silencers are analogs to 80% firearms receivers. A silencer can be made from legally available shapes. It only becomes a silencer when machined and assembled as a silencer.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
A homeowner in Rovigo, Italy, defended himself from armed home invaders. He shot and wounded one of the suspects. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has defended the reform of Italian self defense law.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Arrested and detained: The 50-year-old said he offered to prove that the pictures had been taken in the US – where owning or shooting guns are perfectly legal. Officers told him…
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The bear population in Florida was estimated to reach 11,000 by 2026, which happens to be the same as the bear population was estimated to be before European contact.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The Trump administration had filed a brief in defense of the NFA. Could this be a deliberate means to bring the NFA to the Supreme Court, and then switch sides?
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Licenses Delayed, Rights Denied is a scholarly article that informs readers of the means six outlier states use to deny ordinary citizens their rights to keep and bear arms.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Considering the Keltec KS7 as a potential hunting shotgun, it became evident that a magazine plug would be required to legally hunt migratory game birds, such as ducks, geese, and mourning doves…
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The US Fish & Wildlife service created a regulation requiring the reporting of a self defense shooting of a grizzly bear in the lower 48 states decades ago. The regulation probably violates the Fifth Amendment. Not reporting has its own set of risks which may be greater than reporting.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
A Wall Street Journal article contains false assumptions about the nature of reality. Those assumptions are used to convince readers that justified homicides are not justified.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers for October of 2025 are in. They are nearly identical with October of 2024, and are another month of over 1 million gun sales.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The Iron Beam laser weapon developed in Israel, funded with a considerable amount of American money, has been field tested and will be deployed in Israel in October, 2025.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
2025 is a record year for the number of people killed by bears in Japan. More people are killed by wild bears in Japan than are killed by wild bears in the United States.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
President Javier Milei has won a landslide victory in Argentina’s midterm elections. His support has greatly increased. President Milei has instituted significant reforms of Argentina’s firearms law and admires the United States Second Amendment.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
One of the significant advantages of using handguns to defend against bear attacks is that defense with a handgun is far more likely to result in a dead bear.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
David was extremely skilled with a sling, having killed both a bear and a lion with a sling while protecting his father’s sheep. He uses a projectile weapon to overcome the size and strength of his adversary.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The Gun Rights Policy Conference in Salt Lake City, 2025 had a number of people open carrying holstered pistols. Several photographs of the pistols are shown in the article.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
In this fourth update of the ongoing study of how effective handguns are when fired in defense against bears, the 98% effective rate persists. 15 more incidents have been documented where handguns were fired in defense against a bear or bears. This makes a total of 205 documented cases.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Reddit has banned user to user sales and/or trades or gifts of firearm parts or accessories which enhance the function of a firearm. The rule change took effect on October 9th, 2025.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Jaime Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase has stated the United States needs to stock more bullets, guns, and bombs. He states the world has become a very dangerous place.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands is considering making their extreme firearms laws even more restrictive. The Virgin Island laws have yet to be challenged as infringements of rights protected by the Second Amendment rights in the Courts.