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 to serve as a foundation to inform firearms debates in and out...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center recently hosted Virtual Seminar No. 20 featuring author and Top Shot Champion Chris Cheng. Drawing from six years of research for Proven in Blood: A Novel of War, Betrayal & Belonging, Cheng examined the history of the 100th Infantry Battalion and...
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 MoreIn this installment of the NRA’s Legal Scholar Interview Series, Joseph G.S. Greenlee interviews David T. Hardy. Dave is an attorney and pioneering Second Amendment scholar. He served for ten years as an attorney in the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor...
Read MoreDon't miss Chris Cheng on Virtual Seminar No. 20 next Friday, August 7, at 12:00 PM MT discussing the novel. More information and registration HERE. The history of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team presents one of the most powerful paradoxes...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center recently hosted Virtual Seminar No. 19 featuring historian, historic arms expert, and PBS’s Antiques Roadshow appraiser Joel Bohy. Drawing from his research for Bullet Strikes from the First Day of the American Revolution, Joel demonstrated how archaeology, forensic science, ballistics, and...
Read MoreFirearms have played a central role in American history, shaping everything from technological innovation and manufacturing to military development and constitutional law. In my recent conversation with Alex Robinson on the Outdoor Life Podcast, we explore some of the most fascinating, and often overlooked, firearms...
Read MoreA new Working Paper by Chip Welch entitled A Commentary on the Common Use Doctrine is available. Chip holds a J.D. from J.D. from Delaware Law School and is practicing in Delaware. The paper’s abstract reads: In beginning an analysis on whether AR-15s and other...
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