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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.
A CPRC report says the FBI’s active shooter data leaves out scores of incidents where armed citizens stopped attacks. The numbers raise serious questions about how the FBI defines, selects, and reports these cases.
The death of Anthony Pollio on Glacier’s Mount Brown Trail has reopened the debate over bear spray, firearms, and what actually works when a bear keeps coming.
April 2026 NSSF-adjusted NICS checks rose 1.6% year over year, showing steady firearm demand, while NFA-related checks exploded 130.3% after Congress removed key NFA tax barriers.
Documented handgun-defense cases involving black bears and polar bears show a clear pattern: most incidents were resolved with six shots or fewer, though warning shots produced mixed results.
Tennessee’s SB1847/HB1802 is not a blanket license to shoot over property. The final bill creates a narrow deadly-force justification tied to serious crimes and serious danger.
Congress reduced the NFA tax on suppressors to $0, but suppressors remain trapped inside the federal registration system. Now several states are moving to clean up their own laws before gun owners get caught in another legal mess created by decades of federal overreach.
Brown, grizzly, and Kodiak bear encounters tend to involve more handgun shots than other bear-defense cases. A review of 109 documented Ursus arctos handgun-only incidents shows how often one shot was enough, when warning shots worked, and why larger bears skew the overall numbers.
The Supreme Court of Maryland ruled that Montgomery County went too far with parts of its firearms ordinance, including restrictions affecting state-issued wear-and-carry permit holders traveling on public highways.
Everytown’s AI-powered EveryShot database is marketed as a near-real-time gun violence tracker. But a review of its “legal machine gun” results suggests the tool can misclassify firearms, ownership status, and incident details.
After six years of litigation, the Pennsylvania State Police agreed to revoke its policy treating partially manufactured frames and receivers as firearms under state law. The Firearms Policy Coalition did not get a final merits ruling, but it secured the practical result it sought.
Critics say Trump has not done enough for gun owners because the ATF still exists and the NFA and GCA remain law. But presidents cannot repeal statutes by executive order. The better question is what Trump has done with the authority he actually has.
Were pistols common in Revolutionary America? Historical evidence from Cramer and Olson’s Willamette Law Review article shows pistols were privately owned, commercially available, and familiar to Americans at the Founding.
More than 200 documented cases involving handguns and bear defense offer a revealing look at how these confrontations unfold. In the known cases where shots fired could be counted, most incidents were resolved with six shots or fewer, while warning shots delivered mixed results.
Records from the Siege of Boston show that residents surrendered 1,778 firearms, 634 pistols, and 38 blunderbusses in 1775, offering powerful evidence that handguns were commonly owned during the founding era.
FBI LEOKA data show 53 officers were feloniously killed in 2025, down from 2024, with early 2026 numbers also trending lower. The long-term pattern is uneven, but officer deaths remain well below earlier peaks.
Wyoming lawmakers considered HB14, a bill that would have reimbursed people found not guilty, released, or cleared after lawful self-defense and allowed expungement of related records. The measure failed introduction in the House.
New figures attributed to the ATF show nearly 5.8 million registered suppressors in the United States, underscoring just how fast silencer ownership is growing among American gun owners.
Security footage from Pauls Valley High School shows Principal Kirk Moore charging and tackling an armed former student moments after the suspect chambered a round. Moore was shot in the leg during the confrontation but appears to have stopped a potentially much deadlier attack through immediate, decisive action.
The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Morris v. DOJ did not decide the National Firearms Act question directly, but it may give fresh support to challengers arguing Congress cannot rely on the taxing power when no tax is actually being paid. That argument could have major implications for NFA registration requirements on suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs.
Does shooting a bear make the bear more dangerous? In most cases the bears run off or are killed. If the bears persist in the attack, most are killed or driven off.
Judge Roger T. Benitez retired from federal service on April 2, 2026, ending a judicial career that made him a central figure in major Second Amendment cases, including Duncan v. Bonta, which remains pending at the Supreme Court.
The March 2026 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure rose 1.9% from a year earlier, even as the raw FBI total declined. The bigger story may be in the NFA market, where monthly checks surged 121.2%.
Secretary Pete Hegseth’s April 2, 2026 memo directs installation commanders to presume approval when service members request permission to carry privately owned firearms for personal protection on U.S. military property.
Rhode Island Democrats are pushing a new bill that would expand the state’s existing so-called assault weapons ban by adding possession to the prohibited conduct, escalating the state’s attack on commonly owned firearms.
The U.S. Postal Service is proposing to allow lawful handguns in the mail after a January 2026 DOJ Office of Legal Counsel opinion found the federal handgun mailing ban unconstitutional as applied to protected arms.
Authorities have returned Gabriel Metcalf’s shotgun and ammunition after the Ninth Circuit ordered dismissal of his Billings, Montana Gun-Free School Zones Act case.
KIRO 7’s reporting on a King County bus arrest changed quickly, moving from “military machine gun” language to a description that suggested the firearm was actually a .22-caliber replica.
Attorney General Homer Cummings, Franklin Roosevelt’s top law enforcement official, spent years pushing national handgun registration and broader federal firearm controls after passage of the National Firearms Act.
Ohio Senate Bill 392, the Freedom to Carry Act, would broaden Ohio’s carry framework beyond handguns and lower the licensing age threshold from 21 to 18.
The Tennessee legislature has sent Bill SB0350 to Governor Lee for his signature. The Bill protects the right of renters to keep and bear arms on property which they lease or rent.
