A new Working Paper by Keren Karmiel, Jonathan S. Goldstein & Joseph G.S. Greenlee entitled Nothing New Under Gun Control is now available. Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court has consolidated Viramontes v. Cook County with Grant v. Higgins to decide whether the Second Amendment protects possession...
Read MoreThe topic of ten-round magazines is pervasive in today’s legal debate surrounding certain firearms. While my research focuses on the past, particularly on the evolution of weapons technology, this work has been used to serve as a foundation to inform firearms debates in and out...
Read MoreThe topic of ten-round magazines is pervasive in today’s legal debate surrounding certain firearms. While my research focuses on the past, particularly on the evolution of weapons technology, this work has been used to serve as a foundation to inform firearms debates in and out...
Read MoreHistory of Multi-Shot and Repeating Firearms, Part 1: 1400-1791 – Earliest Repeaters The topic of ten-round magazines is pervasive in today’s legal debate surrounding certain firearms. While my research focuses on the past, particularly on the evolution of weapons technology, this work has been used...
Read MoreThis past week, I was asked a question I had never seriously considered: why did Congress choose “in or before 1898” as the cutoff date for defining an antique firearm? As I reached out to colleagues across the country, I quickly realized I was not...
Read MoreA new Working Paper by Del Schlangen entitled Congress Banned a Gun Registry; AI Inference May Render the Prohibition Obsolete is available. The paper’s abstract reads: Federal law prohibits the establishment of “any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions” under 18...
Read MoreThe expression “weapon of war” is used frequently in modern and historical discussions surrounding firearms. Today, it is used as an umbrella term to describe a range of different firearms that people perceive as being useful to warfare, regardless of whether they were actually used...
Read MoreThis presentation was part of the 2025 Fall Conference, Sparking the Revolution: Flintlocks, Gunpowder, and Policy in America’s War for Independence, held in November 2025 in partnership with the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Featuring Joel Bohy, Historical Arms Specialist Historical arms specialists and Antiques...
Read MoreGuns have been around for a long time, so it would be reasonable to assume the definition of “firearm” is well settled by now. Not so, at least legally speaking. In fact, federal law defines “firearm” multiple ways, for different purposes, and those definitions have...
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