Call for Papers: National Firearms Act Symposium

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024
Location: Laramie, Wyoming
Abstracts Due: July 29, 2024

Manuscripts Due: August 29, 2024

The Wyoming Law Review and the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center announce a call for papers for a Symposium this fall on the National Firearms Act (NFA). Papers may address any aspect of the NFA, including but not limited to:

• the implications for the NFA of recent and upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions (New York State Rifle & Piston Association v. Bruen, Garland v. Cargill, and others);
• the NFA's role in the U.S. today;
• conflict or cooperation between states; the NFA's history;
• empirical study; and
• implications relating to the use of suppressors ("silencers"), including in wildlife conservation and hearing loss prevention.

The Symposium will take place in the new facilities at the University of Wyoming College of Law in Laramie, Wyoming. Accepted final papers will be published in a symposium issue of the Wyoming Law Review. Speakers at the Symposium will be selected based on the abstracts authors submit in July. The articles published in the law review will be selected based on a review of the final drafts.

Submission Details:

• Paper titles and abstracts should be submitted electronically to [e-mail] by July 29, 2024. Abstracts should be no longer than one page and should be submitted as a PDF file saved under the file name "[last name, first name] – [paper title]." Please use the subject line "NFA Submission" in your email.
• Symposium speakers will be selected based on the abstracts submitted in July.
• Authors are expected to submit a law review quality manuscript between 20 and 50 pages by August 29, 2024. The full manuscript will be subject to board review and vote, followed by a formal invitation to publish.
• Publication is anticipated in January 2025.

Extra note by Kopel: The Wyoming Law Review was recently cited in Chief Justice Roberts' opinion for the Court in United States v. Rahimi, slip op. at 9, regarding English legal history: J. Greenlee, The Historical Justification for Prohibiting Dangerous Persons From Possessing Arms, 20 Wyo. L. Rev. 249, 259 (2020).

Comments

[Frank Drackman]

Wyoming? NFA? Former VPOTUS Dick Chaney needs to be there a VPOTUS who actually shot a guy in the Heart with a Shotgun and got away with it, not even a Civil Suit if I remember right (Would you sue Dick Chaney? I wouldn't)

Frank

[Stephen Lathrop]

Extra note by Kopel: The Wyoming Law Review was recently cited in Chief Justice Roberts' opinion for the Court in United States v. Rahimi, slip op. at 9, regarding English legal history: J. Greenlee, The Historical Justification for Prohibiting Dangerous Persons From Possessing Arms, 20 Wyo. L. Rev. 249, 259 (2020)

More evidence where none was needed of the historical incompetence of Supreme Court Justices. Please, Justice Roberts, restrict your reliance to historical sources provided by authors professionally trained to analyze history.

[Brett Bellmore]

Rahimi sure changed what that symposium will look like, didn't it? Based on Bruen by itself, you'd think the NFA was a goner just as soon as the Court was sent a proper test case. There's no part of that law that would survive Bruen style review.

Based on Rahimi? It's probably mostly safe, since that review won't be applied to any law a majority of the Court likes.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Gun absolutists couldn't find even a half-educated state in which to conduct the conference?

[Frank Drackman]

Revolting Arthur just insulted thousands of Native Amuricans, the original inhabitants of Wyoming (of course they were here first, they had Reservations). 20 Minuteman Missile Sites in Wyoming, one of the 5 States that would be "Nuke-ular Powers" if Independent, Who can name the other 4?

Frank