Today, we launched a new page on our website dedicated to suicide awareness and prevention. The suicide crisis is devastating families across the nation and the Firearms Research Center is committed to doing our part to raise awareness and provide resources to the public. Through...
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E. Gregory Wallace is a Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law, where his constitutional law courses include a course on the Second Amendment. He has written and spoken extensively about “assault weapons.” He is co-author of the third edition of the textbook...
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Donald Kilmer is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Lincoln University Law School, where his courses include Second Amendment and Firearms Law. He is co-author of the third edition of the textbook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment. He was Counsel of Record for the...
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When a firearms law is passed, the last thing people think about is, how will this affect a museum? Unless of course, you’re me. In the United States, it probably fair to say that a firearm or related artifact exists in most museums. Unfortunately, there...
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As Joe Engesser of Rock Island Auction Company has put it, “One common gun control argument is that America's Founding Fathers could not have imagined the repeating “assault weapons” of today when the Second Amendment was written in 1791, numerous guns already existed that were...
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Since 1988, I have been writing for the Independence Institute, a Colorado think tank. Last year, I became a Senior Fellow at the Firearms Research Center. A strength of both organizations is that they always tell the truth. This is evidenced by how courts use...
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F. Lee Francis is an assistant professor of law at Mississippi College School of Law. This post is adapted from my forthcoming article Defining Dangerousness: When Disarmament is Appropriate. In 1964, the United State Supreme Court, in Jacobellis v. Ohio, undertook to determine whether the...
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If you would like to know what's been going on with right to arms litigation in the past two years, you're in luck. Published a few weeks ago is the 2023 Supplement to Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy, coauthored by...
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Danny Michael is the Robert W. Woodruff Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum, Editorial Board member of Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms, and co-founder (with our own Ashley Hlekinsky) of the Kurt Swanson Bucholz Arsenals of History symposium. I’m back in Cody from the...
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