President Biden on Thursday announced a package of executive actions to address the public health crisis caused by gun violence. The following faculty members from the Duke University Center for Firearms Law are available to comment.
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Jacob D. Charles
Jacob D. Charles is executive director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law and lecturing fellow at Duke Law. Charles speaks widely on topics including extreme risk (“red flag”) laws; the interplay of state, local and federal gun regulations; and the implications of various Second Amendment cases currently making their way through the federal courts.
https://law.duke.edu/fac/charlesj/
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Joseph Blocher
Joseph Blocher is a professor of constitutional law at Duke Law and co-director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law. Blocher speaks widely on which gun regulations are constitutionally permissible and what shifting Supreme Court dynamics could portend for Second Amendment cases. His most recent scholarship proposes a new paradigm for gun rights and regulation based on the rights of American citizens to conduct their business in public without fear of gun violence.
https://law.duke.edu/fac/blocher/
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Darrell A. H. Miller
Darrell A. H. Miller is a professor of constitutional law at Duke Law and co-director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law. He speaks widely on topics including pre- and post-Heller Second Amendment doctrine, historical gun laws, insurrectionist theory, carry laws, sanctuary cities and the application of the Second Amendment to private militias and protestors.
https://law.duke.edu/fac/dmiller/
(919) 613-8517; dmiller@law.duke.edu
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