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SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/25/25
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SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/25/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/25/25
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Can the Right to Bear Arms Be Waived? firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/can-...
Can the Right to Bear Arms Be Waived? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Can the Right to Bear Arms Be Waived? firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/can-...
Does the Supreme Court's Hemani case, addressing the federal ban on unlawful drug users possessing guns, present problems under the canon of constitutional avoidance? Read on for more today on the blog...
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Should Hemani be Decided as a Statutory Case? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Does the Supreme Court's Hemani case, addressing the federal ban on unlawful drug users possessing guns, present problems under the canon of constitutional avoidance? Read on for more today on the blog...
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SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/18/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/18/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/18/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/scot...
How did early American public carry licensing laws actually operate? Read on for more today on the blog, including an interactive database of 116 licensing rules enacted between 1866 and 1935... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/an-i...
An Interactive Database of Historical Public Carry Licensing Laws | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How did early American public carry licensing laws actually operate? Read on for more today on the blog, including an interactive database of 116 licensing rules enacted between 1866 and 1935... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/an-i...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/11/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/11/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/11/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/scot...
Today on the blog: how the Supreme Court's Wolford case implicates questions about 1st Amendment protection of speech on private property and why the justices should consider those comparisons. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/wolf...
Wolford and Door-to-Door Solicitation | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Today on the blog: how the Supreme Court's Wolford case implicates questions about 1st Amendment protection of speech on private property and why the justices should consider those comparisons. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/wolf...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/4/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/11/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 11/4/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/9/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/9/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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September 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/9/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/scot...
Today on the blog: the Center's undergraduate summer research assistants describe their experience digging into historical weapons regulation, enforcement, and historical context firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/a-mu...
A Multi-Sourced Approach to Exploring Historical Analogues of American Gun Regulation | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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September 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today on the blog: the Center's undergraduate summer research assistants describe their experience digging into historical weapons regulation, enforcement, and historical context firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/a-mu...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/2/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/2/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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September 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 9/2/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/09/scot...
Guest author Margaret Groban analyzes the recent First Circuit oral argument in a case challenging Maine's new 72-hour waiting period law for gun purchases... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/liti...
Litigation Highlight: First Circuit Hears Appeal in Challenge to Maine's New Waiting Period Law | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Guest author Margaret Groban analyzes the recent First Circuit oral argument in a case challenging Maine's new 72-hour waiting period law for gun purchases... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/liti...
Today on the blog: after the Supreme Court's March decision upholding federal regulation of ghost guns, how have states sought to address the issue and why are constitutional arguments becoming more prominent in challenges to ghost-gun laws? firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/how-...
How Are States Responding to VanDerStok? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Today on the blog: after the Supreme Court's March decision upholding federal regulation of ghost guns, how have states sought to address the issue and why are constitutional arguments becoming more prominent in challenges to ghost-gun laws? firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/how-...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/25/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/25/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/25/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/scot...
Today: in the final guest post from our works-in-progress conference hosted w/ the Wyoming Firearms Research Center, Leo Bernabei argues that First Amendment doctrine can and should inform Second Amendment law even post-Bruen. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/our-...
Our First Second Amendment | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Today: in the final guest post from our works-in-progress conference hosted w/ the Wyoming Firearms Research Center, Leo Bernabei argues that First Amendment doctrine can and should inform Second Amendment law even post-Bruen. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/our-...
Of interest to firearms scholars: Apply now for the CFM Early-career Fellowship and the ARES Emerging Experts Fellowship, which support promising researchers in arms history. See the link for more details... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/now-...
Now Open for Applicants: CSAH Fellowship Programmes Supporting Early-Career Arms Historians | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Of interest to firearms scholars: Apply now for the CFM Early-career Fellowship and the ARES Emerging Experts Fellowship, which support promising researchers in arms history. See the link for more details... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/now-...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/18/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/18/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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This new guest post by Brazilian attorney Antonio Pedro Machado compares the local dynamics of firearms regulation in the United States and Brazil - summarizing work presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the Wyoming Firearm Research Center. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/fede...
Federalism and Firearms: How Brazil and the United States Define the Limits of State and Local Authority | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This new guest post by Brazilian attorney Antonio Pedro Machado compares the local dynamics of firearms regulation in the United States and Brazil - summarizing work presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the Wyoming Firearm Research Center. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/fede...
In a new guest post today, K. Alexander Adams evaluates the impact of different regulatory approaches on gun theft - summarizing a paper he presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/beyo...
Beyond “Just-So” Stories: Do Firearms Laws Really Affect Gun Theft? | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
In a new guest post today, K. Alexander Adams evaluates the impact of different regulatory approaches on gun theft - summarizing a paper he presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/beyo...
2025 Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference in Laramie, Wyoming
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2025 Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference in Laramie, Wyoming | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
2025 Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference in Laramie, Wyoming
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SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/11/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/scot...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/11/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/scot...
Today on the blog, Prof. Martin Edwards examines the Federal Firearm License system for gun sales and how its restrictions may reduce transaction costs - summarizing work presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the Wyoming Firearm Research Center firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/the-...
The F.F.L. “System”: An Economic Institution | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today on the blog, Prof. Martin Edwards examines the Federal Firearm License system for gun sales and how its restrictions may reduce transaction costs - summarizing work presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the Wyoming Firearm Research Center firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/the-...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/4/25 firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/08/scot...
SCOTUS Gun Watch - Week of 8/4/25 | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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In a new post today, Tom Chittum traces the history of firearm silencers and examines why courts have excluded them from Second Amendment protection - summarizing work presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the Wyoming Firearm Research Center
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The Firearm That Isn’t: Silencers and the “Loud Bang Theory” | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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August 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In a new post today, Tom Chittum traces the history of firearm silencers and examines why courts have excluded them from Second Amendment protection - summarizing work presented at our recent WIP conference hosted w/the Wyoming Firearm Research Center
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Some states have recently mandated gun safety training for all public school K-12 students. How will these classes operate, and might they face constitutional challenges from parents? Center RA Alison Riddoch explores these questions in a new post today... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/07/an-e...
An Emerging Trend: Mandatory Firearm Safety Instruction in K-12 Schools | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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July 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Some states have recently mandated gun safety training for all public school K-12 students. How will these classes operate, and might they face constitutional challenges from parents? Center RA Alison Riddoch explores these questions in a new post today... firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/07/an-e...