A new Working Paper by Charles W. Welch IV entitled Heller, History, and Hunting is available. Chip is a graduating 3L at Delaware Law School. The paper’s abstract reads: It is intuitive that the Second Amendment would protect a right to keep and bear arms for...
Read More“…[H]aving arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law . . . is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are...
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 MoreA new Working Paper by Christopher R. Estock entitled Second Amendment Law Applied to Attachments and Modifications to Firearms is available. Chris is a 2023 graduate of the University of Akron McDowell School of Law. The paper’s abstract reads: The term ‘assault weapon’ has been a...
Read MoreOn October 18th, the Firearms Research Center, in conjunction with the Wyoming Law Review, hosted a symposium on the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. The one-day event featured panels that examined many aspects of this major federal law. The NFA was enacted in 1934...
Read MoreLast Friday, FRC Director George A. Mocsary presented a CLE on The Constitutional Right to Hunt. It is available in our Video Library and below. The seminar covers the history of the right to hunt, beginning with the English hunting and game laws. These laws,...
Read MoreDru Stevenson is a Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law and one of the FRC’s new Fellows. My most recent law review article investigates the public meaning of the word “infringed” in the Founding era: Shall Not Be “Infringed” is forthcoming...
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Asssoc. v. Bruen instructed lower courts how to decide right to arms issues: "In keeping with Heller, we hold that when the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects...
Read MoreIn United States v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court held that an individual who has been judged to pose a clear threat to another can be temporarily disarmed consistent with our history and tradition of firearm regulation. In doing so, the Court clarified that in...
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