The Colt Model 1911 is one of the most iconic handguns in military history. Designed by John Moses Browning, it was adopted by the US Army in March 1911 as the standard-issue sidearm, replacing older revolvers. Chambered in .45 ACP (another Browning design), the Model...
Read MoreOn July 3rd, 1775, on the green at Cambridge, MA, George Washington drew his sword and officially assumed command of the newly formed Continental Army. Washington’s leadership marked the transformation of regional rebellion into a national movement for independence. The Revolutionary War had already begun...
Read MoreIn addition to the revolving handguns for which he is most well-known, Colt designed and patented several revolving rifles and shotguns, starting in the 1830s. The Colt Model 1855 revolving shotgun was based on a handgun with the same model’s name, nicknamed the “Root” after...
Read MoreIn this installment of the NRA’s Legal Scholar Interview Series, Joseph G.S. Greenlee interviews Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm. Professor Malcolm is a FRC Fellow, a historian, and a constitutional scholar of the development of individual rights in Great Britain and America. Her work focuses on...
Read MoreMemorial Day is a holiday of reflection, dedicated to honoring military personnel who died in service. The sheer scale of death in the wake of the American Civil War prompted a nationwide movement to remember the fallen, leading to various local commemorations that would eventually...
Read MoreJohn Moses Browning (1855-1926) is considered by many to be the greatest gun designer in history. During his lifetime, he invented shotguns, rifles, pistols, machine guns, and cartridges, filing 128 patents over 47 years. His designs were associated with some of the biggest names in...
Read MoreIn this installment of the NRA’s Legal Scholar Interview Series, Joseph G.S. Greenlee interviews George Washington University Law School Professor and Second Amendment scholar, Bob Cottrol. They travel through American history, starting with the colonies and ending with modern Supreme Court rulings on the Second...
Read MoreThis is the second in a series of posts about David T. Hardy’s research on Jack Miller, the defendant-respondent in the famous case of United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939). The first post is available here. Popular lore has it that Jackson “Jack...
Read MoreBeing the son of two lawyers, I encountered cultural differences when I married into an Irish-American family. My new relatives were excellent story-tellers, and to them, the quality of the story was independent of its literal veracity. After a few years, I learned that when...
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