About the Center
The Center has a
two-fold mission:
To help support and build the scholarly field of firearms law
To serve as a balanced and reliable resource on firearms law for scholars, judges, lawyers, policymakers, journalists, and interested citizens.
Launched in 2019, the Center carries out its mission through the dissemination and support of reliable, balanced, and insightful scholarship and programming on firearms law.
Our goal is that this scholarship and programming will be useful to a broad array of academic and popular audiences. Throughout the year, the Center organizes and hosts conferences and workshops, shapes and encourages scholars and scholarship, and develops teaching materials.
In The News
Joseph Blocher talks with USA Today about how the Supreme Court could apply its historical test in challenges to state and local bans of AR-15s
July 27, 2026
Joseph Blocher: Common use, as a basis for protected firearms, has "no meaningful connection" to the Second Amendment
July 17, 2026
Joseph Blocher: Lawsuit challenging states' gun restrictions is a first for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division
July 17, 2026