This 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 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 MoreDATE: May 28-29, 2026 LOCATION: Durham, NC ABSTRACTS DUE: February 20, 2026 The Duke Center for Firearms Law and the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center invite applications to participate in the eighth annual Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference. The conference will be held at Duke Law School...
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 MoreThis fall, the Firearms Research Center will host its annual conference, Sparking the Revolution: Flintlocks, Gunpowder, and Policy in America’s War for Independence, on November 20–21, 2025, at the Springfield National Armory Historic Site in Springfield, Massachusetts. This year’s conference will explore the pivotal themes...
Read MoreOn June 5–6, 2025, the Firearms Research Center (FRC) at the University of Wyoming College of Law hosted the Seventh Annual Firearms Law Works-in-Progress (WIP) Conference. The conference, held on a home-and-away basis with our colleagues at the Duke Center for Firearms Law, brought together...
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2025 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreTyler Berger is the Research Assistant for the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY. The Kurt Swanson Bucholz Arsenals of History Symposium is a yearly forum for firearms researchers and museum professionals to come together and present...
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