Our latest exhibit, Targeting Women, examines the historical role of women in American firearms culture, with particular attention to how the firearms industry marketed guns to females during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than treating women’s participation in firearms ownership and usage as a...
Read MoreWe have launched the new Exhibits section of our website. This initiative is designed to curate materials from museums, archives, and private collections around the world. It is meant to be a dynamic and evolving resource that highlights historical artifacts, archival documents, and scholarly interpretation....
Read MoreIt’s always interesting to see how different industries market their products throughout history - how their marketing strategies change, or not, with the culture of the time. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s McCracken Research Library is a fantastic resource to see how gun...
Read MoreDonald 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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