Law Professor Gregory Wallace named Fellow at Wyoming Law’s Firearms Research Center

RALEIGH - Professor E. Gregory Wallace has been named a Fellow at the University of Wyoming College of Law's Firearms Research Center (FRC). The Center's mission is to "foster a broad discourse and produce meaningful change in how firearms and the Second Amendment are discussed and understood in America through research, scholarship, legal training and publicly available resources.

Professor Wallace is co-author of "Firearms Law and the Second Amendment," the leading law school textbook and treatise on the subject. His research focuses on "assault weapons," gun bans, firearm ballistics and mass public shootings.

His publications include two law review articles - "Assault Weapon" Lethality in the Tennessee Law Review and "Assault Weapon" Myths in the Southern Illinois Law Journal - which recently were cited in opinions in the Fourth and Seventh Circuits, several articles with FRC Fellow David Kopel on "The Volokh Conspiracy" on "assault weapon" ballistics and firepower, statistical evidence on firearms use, and corpus linguistics and the Second Amendment, an essay with FRC Director George Mocsary published in The Federalist refuting claims that mass shootings decreased during the federal assault weapon ban, and multiple posts on the FRC Forum and Duke Center for Firearms Law blog. He also has filed amicus briefs in the U.S.SupremeCourt and severallowercourts in gun ban cases.

Professor Wallace provides frequent commentary on firearms and Second Amendment issues at conferences and symposia as well as in news reports, media interviews and op-ed columns. He has been a contributor to TheHill.com and has appeared on CBS News, NPR and Bloomberg Law Radio, as well as North Carolina television and radio stations. He has been quoted by ABC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press, Newsday, Snopes and numerous other state and local media outlets. He was recently featured on Malcolm Gladwell's "Revisionist History" podcast in "Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson."

For more than a decade, Professor Wallace has taught a course on firearms law and the Second Amendment at Campbell Law School.