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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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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.
The New Mexico gun ban, SB17 is facing stiff opposition from Second Amendment supporters in the House Judiciary Committee. It is vulnerable. The New Mexico legislative session ends today.
Predators are not immortal. Humans must manage ecosystems. Nothing else can do so. The idea of a “balance” in nature is a myth.
A dangerous, habituated grizzly bear swam to Texada Island in British Columbia. It was eventually shot and killed. The people responsible were fined for not immediately reporting the killing of the bear.
The adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System numbers from the NSSF show January firearm sales to be slightly lower from last years report.
The Seven Red state governors at the 2026 SHOT Show Governors Forum had strong opinions and thoughts for restoring Second Amendment rights and protecting the firearms industry from lawfare.
The New Mexico legislature is considering Bill SB17, which bans the sale of semi-automatics and magazines which hold more than 10 rounds. The bill also imposes significant burdens on gun shops.
The Civil Rights Division of the Trump administration Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief defending the Second Amendment against infringements imposed by the Massachusetts handgun roster.
If the Senate Republicans eliminate the filibuster, they open the door to passing more of President Trump’s agenda.
An adult female black bear was killed with a .177 pellet gun in Colorado in 2024. A necropsy was done to determine the cause of death.
A staff member of the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) has registered and made a legal silencer out of a potato. There is video of its use. It illustrates the absurdity of the National Firearms Act.
Before Kristen Marie Kovatch was killed in a predatory mountain lion attack in Colorado, there were several precursor incidents. An armed person could have made a large difference.
David Warrington, White House Counsel to President Trump, gave remarks before the Governors Forum at SHOT Show in 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Braden Langley has posted a compelling analysis of what appears to be an unintentional discharge that led to law enforcement’s response.
A campus carry bill introduced into the New Hampshire General Court (legislature) has a reasonable chance of passage in 2026.
The rush to submit Form 1 and Form 4 NFA applications for suppressors, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons continues.
The Attorneys General Forum was informative. The eight Attorneys General were articulate, committed to restoring rights protected by the Second Amendment, and knowledgeable about the tactics being used to attack those rights.
The Wisconsin legislature is considering an amendment to strengthen the state constitution’s right to keep and bear arms.
At the Industry Day at the Range for SHOT Show 2026, the weather was wonderful. Suppressors were abundant and the noise level lower. It was the year of the suppressor.
The number of firearm sales in 2025, as measured by the adjusted NICS numbers by the National Shooting Sport Foundation, dropped 4.1 % from 2024 as a whole and 3.4% for December as a month.
A recent article in RollingOut.com repeated numbers from the anti-gun source, Everytown Research. The article is heavily biased, as expected.
The 2025 Florida black bear hunt has been a failure as an attempt to manage the bear population in Florida. Only 52 bears were harvested.
Hunting of grizzly bears was banned in British Columbia in 2017. At the time, opponents of the hunting ban warned there would be increasing bear/human conflicts.
United States law enforcement with considerable assistance from the United States military and United States intelligence agencies conducted a successful operation to take Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody for trial in the United States. The USA and many countries around the world did not recognize the Maduro regime as legitimate.
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.
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.
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.
The ATF released a report in 2024 with updated data about traces involving privately made firearms, sometimes referred to as “ghost guns”.
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission officials are not releasing information about the ongoing bear hunt until the hunt is over.
