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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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts has appealed the Lowell District Court case against Dean Donnell, which found the Massachusetts law against carrying a firearm without a license to be unconstitutional.
The law does not define machine guns by rate of fire. Simple skill can produce rates of fire in a revolver at the levels of common machine guns.
May 2024 continues the trend noted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation of gun sales of over a million a month for the last 58 months.
The bill to restore the ability of people in Florida to defend themselves, their pets and their dwellings from black bears has been sent to Governor DeSantis.
A cinnamon phase black bear killed a 71 year old woman in her home in Downieville, California. Sierra County Sheriff Mike Fisher had to struggle with California Fish & Game bureaucracy to trap and euthanize the bear.
Massachusetts courts are starting to follow the Supreme Court’s guidance in the Bruen decision.
A recent paper debunks the theory that men purchase guns because they are dissatisfied with their sexual equipment.
Since the convention and amendment were proposed, no other state has passed a resolution to support Governor Newsom’s effort.
Wisconsin’s rule forbids possession of firearms on banks of rivers or lakes, or on bodies of water. The lawsuit challenges the rule under the Second Amendment and the Bruen decision.
While Humanium Metal was destroying firearms at a Maine police station a negligent discharge occurred, damaging two vehicles.
The Montana Governor’s race and the Montana Senate race are taking shape. Governor Gianforte is the favorite to keep his seat as governor. Democratic Senator Jon Tester is in a hotly contested race which may decide who controls the Senate.
Deputy Eddie Duran has been fired from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office for violating the agency’s policy on deadly force in the shooting death of Roger Fortson.
Morin v Lyver is the one of the four cases the Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded back to the Circuits after the Bruen decision. It is the second of those cases to reach a final judgement.
Brandon Maddox, founder of Silencer Central and the largest silencer dealer in the nation gives his thoughts about the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) and how to move toward that end.
The challenge to the ban on rights protected by the Second Amendment on Post Office property is being appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
This is a strong ruling for the First Amendment and the NRA. How the District court rules on the issue will be very important.
On Monday, May 27, a cinnamon color phase of the common black bear entered the home of a long-time resident of Lake Tahoe, California.
A story heard by a young boy in 1960’s Wisconsin, has a ring of veracity, but not enough information to consider it documented for the database of handguns fired in defense against bears.
This is a compendium off all documented cases which have been found, with diligent searching over the past several years, where a 9mm handgun has been fired in defense against bears.
A federal district judge in Texas has issued a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration’s enforcement of a new “final rule” which changes the definition of “engaging in the business” of dealing in firearms. The new rule is already having a chilling effect on gun shows.
A bear attack in Northern Colorado was stopped by Ethan Daubs after he had to shoot the black bear in self defense with a 9mm pistol.
Perry was convicted in what many perceived as a political prosecution of a self defense case in Austin, in 2021.
The National Instant background Check System shows the numbers for gun sales and background checks in April of 2024 are the fifth highest April on record.
An update of the incidents where use of .380, 9.3×18 Makarov, and .38 caliber revolvers which were fired in defense against bears. All documented incidents are included.
A three judge panel in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has found the federal ban on the exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment, for non-violent felons, is unconstitutional in the case of US v Duarte.
In a tragic shooting in Florida, an Okaloosa County deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson, as Fortson answered his door with a handgun in his hand, held down at his side.
The Canadian government is moving forward with plans to destroy thousands of historic Browning Hi-Power pistols.
Here are all the documented cases where .22 rimfire handguns were fired in defense against bears, from several years of diligent searching. We welcome additions to the list, especially of incidents where firing the handgun failed to deter the bear.
The number of defensive cases where a handgun was documented to have been fired in defense against a bear has reached 100. The total number is now 192 incidents. Success rate remains at 98%.
A three judge administrative panel on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted a stay of the summary judgement against the State of California in the One Gun a Month case.
