The 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 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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe Firearms Research Center recently hosted a Virtual Seminar featuring Professor F. Lee Francis to discuss the constitutional challenges surrounding 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) and the federal prohibition on firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances. In the seminar, Professor Francis explores the distinction...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center recently hosted a Virtual Seminar featuring Tom Chittum, law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and former senior ATF official, on the federal legal framework governing the manufacturing of firearms. In the seminar, Tom discusses the National Firearms Act...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center’s fifteenth virtual seminar examined the increasingly important role of expert witnesses in Second Amendment litigation. This CLE-eligible seminar featured attorney Donald Kilmer, with guest lecturer Clayton Cramer, a leading firearms historian whose work has been cited by multiple courts addressing Second...
Read MoreIn Virtual Seminar No. 14, Sublette County Attorney Clayton Melinkovich discussed Wyoming’s mental health laws and firearm access. Drawing on his experience, Melinkovich outlined the state’s statutory framework, the evolution of concealed carry from permit requirements to constitutional carry, and 2025 changes distinguishing where permit...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center’s 13th Virtual Seminar featured Walk the Talk America (WTTA) CEO Michael Sodini and Board Member and Marriage and Family Therapist Jake Wiskerchen on practical, rights-respecting approaches to suicide prevention. They discussed why most firearm deaths are suicides, how stigma and fear...
Read MoreThe Firearms Research Center’s twelfth virtual seminar featured an in-depth discussion on Second Amendment protections for young adults. Second Amendment scholar Joseph G.S. Greenlee interviews FRC Director George A. Mocsary on his paper Treating Young Adults as Citizens. Their conversation examined the historical and legal...
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