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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.
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
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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 bill requires school districts and charter schools to provide age-appropriate firearm safety awareness training in all grades, kindergarten through 12th grade.
The Los Angeles County Superior Court failed to properly submit about 147,000 felony convictions to the California Department of Justice over more than 20 years
California’s gun advertising ban was struck down under the First Amendment, and the state now faces about $1.3 million in combined fee payouts tied to the failed law.
A terror attack on a Michigan synagogue was stopped before police could intervene due to a well-trained security team.
Investigators did not find the person who sold the pistol to the terrorist through gun tracing systems. They found him through an analysis of the terrorist’s telephone records.
The Georgia Senate has sent Senate Bill 651 to the House. The bill enhances the right to self defense and includes immunity from civil lawsuit for a defenders heirs.
A father and son in Slovakia stopped a deadly brown bear attack using handguns. The dramatic self-defense incident highlights rare armed defense against bear attacks in Europe.
The adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers from the NSSF for February 2026 show a 3.5% increase in gun sales, while total NICS background checks decreased by 13.5%.
Tony Gonzales has dropped out of the race for Texas Congressional District 23. Brandon Herrera will be the Republican candidate.
Colorado legislators advance new gun control bills restricting 3D-printed firearms and requiring firearm barrel sales through licensed dealers.
Rep. Tony Gonzales faces a House Ethics Committee investigation after gun rights activist Brandon Herrera forced a runoff in Texas District 23’s Republican primary.
A bill with extreme infringements on rights protected by the Second Amendment has been introduced into the Minnesota Legislature.
A bill in the Florida legislature is posed to pass and to restore the ability of Church members to form their own armed security teams without regulation under the laws for private security firms.
The Crime Prevention Research Center has published a study showing that people who identify as transgender commit active public shooting at much higher levels than the population as a whole.
