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: 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
Joseph Blocher: No Kings rally manslaughter case at "the intersection of some of the most fraught areas of law"
June 17, 2026