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
After the Supreme Court Bruen decision, which restored rights protected by the Second Amendment, anti-Second Amendment pundits predicted a rise in violent crime and homicides. The opposite has happened.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
A study by Italian scientist has shown the Italian population of ursus arctos (same species as grizzly bears) has been selected, by human hunting pressure, to be less aggressive toward humans.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
We live in an age of abundance. Most people take it for granted. There is no time in history where more people were better fed, better cared for, had better housing or access to better goods and services than at present.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The State of Arkansas Attorney General, Tim Griffin, has issued an opinion to clarify questions about several laws concerning the carry of firearms in the state.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
The younger terrorist in the Austrailan Bondi beach terror attack was taken down with a 43 yard pistol shot by an Australian police officer, according to a reliable source and analysis of Google Maps.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Both South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden and South Dakota State Senator Casey Crabtree have announced they will support state deregulation of silencers in South Dakota. A bill is expected to be introduced in 2026.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
Elon Musk is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. X bans weapon ads. The support matters, the ban may not. Bans on advertising for firearms have backfired.
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.
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
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…
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
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…
Ammoland Inc.https://www.ammoland.com/Posted on by Dean Weingarten
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.