University of Wyoming College of Law professor and Founder/Director of the Firearms Research Center, George A. Mocsary, joined the Federalist Society for a Courthouse Steps webinar discussing the Supreme Court case Wolford v. Lopez. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v....
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 Erik Goldstein, Colonial Williamsburg Erik Goldstein presented on the material...
Read MoreFirearms Research Center Executive Director Ashley Hlebinsky recently joined Gun Talk Nation to discuss Armed with Knowledge, a new initiative aimed at helping teachers across the country better understand and educate on the Second Amendment. Ashley discusses the need for historically grounded, academically rigorous, and...
Read MoreThis panel was presented as 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: Bob Cottrol, George Washington University E. Gregory Wallace,...
Read MoreThis session was presented as 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: George A. Mocsary, Director, Firearms Research Center Megan...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center’s fifteenth virtual seminar examined the increasingly important role of expert witnesses in Second Amendment litigation. This CLE-eligible seminar featured attorney Donald Kilmer, with guest lecturer Clayton Cramer, a leading firearms historian whose work has been cited by multiple courts addressing Second...
Read MoreWhen the average gun owner thinks of an AR-15, they usually associate it with direct impingement because the original Eugene Stoner designed AR-10s and AR-15s utilized this type of gas operation. Direct impingement is a gas operating system that uses gas from a fired cartridge...
Read More[audio mp3="http://firearmsresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/120725guntalkc.mp3"][/audio] Firearms Research Center Executive Director Ashley Hlebinsky joined Tom Gresham on Gun Talk Radio to discuss the Center’s newly awarded U.S. Department of Education grant and its multi-year program, Armed with Knowledge: A Nonpartisan Second Amendment Initiative. She introduced listeners to the FRC’s...
Read More[video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://firearmsresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/IMG_8455.mp4"][/video] The University of Wyoming’s Firearms Research Center (FRC) has been awarded $908,991 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Education’s American History and Civics Education – National Activities Semiquincentennial program to implement Armed with Knowledge: A Nonpartisan Second Amendment Initiative....
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