The inaugural webinar in the Firearms Research Center’s Armed with Knowledge series, “Why Do We Have a Second Amendment?”, is now available to watch in the FRC Video Library. Featuring scholars Nicholas J. Johnson, Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, and Jody...
Read MoreOn October 15–16, 2026, the University of Wyoming College of Law’s Firearms Research Center will convene its 2026 Fall Conference, Natural Rights, Regulation, and the Post-Bruen Second Amendment, at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. The two-day conference may be attended either in person...
Read MoreTwo firearms and ballistics experts and several law professors who teach and write about the Second Amendment have filed an amicus brief, on which I’m lead counsel, with the U.S. Supreme Court in two critically important cases challenging bans on so-called “assault weapons,” including the...
Read MoreA new Working Paper by Keren Karmiel, Jonathan S. Goldstein & Joseph G.S. Greenlee entitled Nothing New Under Gun Control is now available. Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court has consolidated Viramontes v. Cook County with Grant v. Higgins to decide whether the Second Amendment protects possession...
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2026 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 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 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 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 MoreRobert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor emeritus of political science at SUNY Cortland, and an adjunct professor at the College of William and Mary School of Law. He is the author of seven books on gun policy. His newest book, Gun Law History: How...
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