The Firearms Research Center recently hosted Virtual Seminar No. 18, "Point-Counterpoint: The Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)," featuring Professors Margaret Groban and Lahny Silva. The discussion examined the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Supreme Court's history-and-tradition framework established in New York...
Read MoreThis is the sixth post in a series of six by Jonathan Goldstein adapting a set of administrative comment letters submitted in response to recent ATF rulemakings. The posts are designed to make the central legal and policy arguments more accessible to a broader audience...
Read MoreIn United States v. Hemani, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday held that the federal government could not prosecute Ali Hemani under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)’s “unlawful user” provision solely because he used marijuana a few times a week while owning a firearm at home. The...
Read MoreA new Working Paper by Akhil Rajasekar entitled Of Pistols and Polities: Illegal Aliens and the Second Amendment is available. Akhil holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and was a William H. Rehnquist Fellow at Cooper & Kirk. The paper’s abstract reads: New York...
Read MoreA new Working Paper by R. Monnie Hedges III The Early Innings of Bruen: How Courts Have Applied the Landmark Supreme Court Decision is available. Monnie is a 2025 graduate of the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. The paper placed first in...
Read MoreIn 2025, the Department of Justice has taken several steps to revive the long-dormant process for individuals and corporations to seek restoration of gun rights as provided in 18 U.S.C. § 925(c). This culminated in the July 2025 New Proposed Rule for Relief from Disabilities,...
Read MoreEarlier this Term, the Supreme Court agreed to hear United States v. Hemani, a challenge to § 922(g)(3), the federal statute barring firearm possession by “unlawful users of or addicts to” controlled substances. Federal agents searching Hemani’s home discovered firearms and evidence suggesting prior drug...
Read MoreLahny Silva is a professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and supervises the McKinny Reentry Clinic. Her scholarship centers on prisoner reentry and the collateral consequences of conviction including felon firearm bans and restoration...
Read MoreNatalie is a Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law. She is the founding Director of the law school’s Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women, where she teaches and supervises students representing survivors of gender-based violence in a broad...
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