Enjoyed speaking with NPR for this story about the role of history in Second Amendment cases and Duke Center for Firearms Law Repository of Historical Gun Laws wpr.org/news/in-todays…

Enjoyed speaking with KUNM News for this segment today on gun laws, the Second Amendment, and legislative proposals in New Mexico kunm.org/show/lets-talk…

I've now posted to SSRN my new essay forthcoming in Duke Law Journal Online, where I explore how to square originalist, history-focused methods of constitutional adjudication with the inconsistent realities of early American court reporting. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Willinger on Gaps in Early Reporting of Judicial Decisions and Reconstruction of the General Law, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/20…

In his Essay, “Missing Pieces: Gaps in the Record of Early American Decisional Law,” Andrew Willinger reveals a challenge of #Bruen's historical approach: court reporting at and after the Founding era was inconsistent and even chaotic. #law Read here: scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj_online/110/

Washington, DC, the 13th and final event in my New America fellowship tour will take place in May 14 with Andrew Willinger! RSVP 🔜 newamerica.org/new-america/ev…

TOMORROW: Join Alexis Coe and Andrew Willinger of Duke Center for Firearms Law on the final stop of Coe's "How Should a President Be?" tour. They'll discuss presidents and firearms and the ways that unknown history can influence a modern president. 📆 5/14 @ 7p ET: bit.ly/4dDTnNJ

Overlooked: state cts resolve more 2A claims than fed cts and are extremely burdened by SCOTUS's ambiguous recent guidance. I highlight that burden and how Rahimi does little to resolve it (even in DV cases) @statecourtrept Brennan Center SMU Dedman School of Law statecourtreport.org/our-work/analy…

Thinking about Rahimi, are there other instances where a justice wrote the maj opinion in a case articulating a new rule, test, or major change in the law (at least arguably), and then only a short time later dissented from an opinion applying that rule/test?

.Duke Center for Firearms Law Exec Dir Andrew Willinger writes for The Regulatory Review (The Regulatory Review) on the relevance and role of statutory-regulatory time gaps in administrative law cases bit.ly/3WOKdrD

In "Bruen’s Enforcement Puzzle: Unearthing and Adjudicating the Historical Enforcement Record in Second Amendment Cases," Andrew Willinger analyzes the historical enforcement of gun regulations and notes how Bruen's treatment of discriminatory taint with such regulations may be

Excited to share that my next article "History and Tradition as Heightened Scrutiny" will be published in the Wake Forest Law Review! Look forward to working w/ the great Wᴀᴋᴇ Fᴏʀᴇsᴛ L. Rᴇᴠ. student editors. Not on SSRN yet, but I'm happy to share the draft by email.

Does originalism always work in practice when it filters down to state courts? I blogged Brennan Center about a recent Kansas case that confronted that issue in the gun rights-context statecourtreport.org/our-work/analy…

In a recent essay, Andrew Willinger of Duke Center for Firearms Law argues that the Supreme Court’s decision in Bondi v. VanDerStok—upholding ATF “ghost-gun” rules—shows public-safety and law-and-order politics outweigh broad deregulatory gun-rights rhetoric. buff.ly/iQZAk0H