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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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The veto referendum filed to stop the enactment of Constitutional Carry in Oklahoma appears to have failed. The official count will be done by the Secretary of State next week.
The holy grail of those who wish us disarmed is gun registration. Once your guns are required to be registered, they are, in effect, already confiscated.
US News and World Report has rated states for public safety. The top three, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire, are all Constitutional Carry States.
The mass murderer at Odessa/Midland Texas may have used a homemade gun. It might have been sold to him illegally. Homemade guns have been legal for the existence of the United States.
The Washington Post has printed an emotional plea for Majority Leader McConnell to violate his oath and ban a whole class of arms. Yes, Senator McConnell, do something: Protect the Bill of Rights.
We are inside a cluster of mass public murders. We should avoid the media induced emotion, and refrain from crippling the First Amendment or the Second Amendment.
An armed robbery suspect makes fatal mistakes in a surveillance video. The shooting happened in a MetroPCS store in Philadelphia on 26 August, 2019.
More people are injured by a moose attack than by a bear attack in Alaska, but more people are killed by bears if you subtract fatal automobile accidents involving moose.
Police confiscate over 50 guns during a wellness check of a former gun dealer. Police maximize propaganda value by calling Swat, Hazmat, Bomb squad for what appear to be legal items.
New Zealand reports 10,000 banned guns have been turned in for compensation. Where are the pictures? 8,000 were registered to be turned in before the collection started. Some are being converted.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had a third bout with cancer, the second in eight months. She is no friend of the Second Amendment or the Constitution. Do not wish her ill.
The Harris County District Attorney has charged one former Houston Police department officer with murder, and another with second-degree tampering of a government document, in botched no-knock raid.
The Michigan Court of Appeals has found for Siwatu-Salama Ra, and shown that the mere display of a firearm is not the use of lethal force.
Fatal accidents involving children and bicycles are more common than fatal accidents involving children and guns. Both are rare. Gun use for defense of self and others is common.
There have been several bear attacks and a mountain lion attack in the summer of 2019, where the victim would have benefited from the possession of a handgun.
Many media outlets continue to misidentify the pistol used in the mass murder at Dayton. It shows the absurdity of the current state of the law about firearms.
Several media outlets have reported that 30% of guns confiscated in California are homemade. This shows there are physical limits to restricting firearms.
Democrat Senators send a thinly veiled threat to the Supreme Court: Do what we demand, or face “restructuring”.
From 1933 to 1917 unintentional deaths from firearms or the fatal gun accident rate, fell by 94%. This is an unheralded success for firearms safety.
The Green County Prosecutor in Missouri refused to charge Dmitriy Andreychenco with terrorist threat in the first degree. The charge was made in the 2nd degree. Dmitriy was open carrying in a Walmart
The July 2019 National Instant background Checks are the highest on record. Increasing numbers of permit and permit rechecks skew the numbers.
Senator Chuck Schumer has proposed an unconstitutional ban on body armor. The proposal should not be taken seriously. Body armor is a bearable arm protected by the Second Amendment.
Another ten cases have been added to the cases where pistols or handguns were used in defense against bear attacks. The total now is 73 cases. There were 3 failures. Handguns were 96% effective.
Dmitriy Andreychenko has been arrested in Springfield, Missouri, after a Walmart manager panicked and pulled an alarm while Dmitriy was pushing a cart through the store while open carrying. Video.
Jason Isbell, in a tweet, claimed that the definition of “assault weapons” is unimportant. Arguing that ignorance is strength is an old, Orwellian, tactic.
