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A well regulated militia,
being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.

- Second Amendment, Bill of Rights, US Constitution

Established in 2003, the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at The Ohio State University is a nonprofit, nonpartisan center promoting scholarship on issues concerning the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and firearms regulation.

SARC's goal is to aid in the creation of solutions to the problem of gun violence that are both effective and constitutional, and that recognize equally the widespread private ownership of firearms in the United States, the many legitimate uses of firearms in American society, and the high levels of firearm violence in our country.

SARC believes that such solutions must be informed by the work of scholars from a wide range of scholarly disciplines and a broad spectrum of perspectives. The Center seeks to model the sophisticated use of high-quality, multi- and inter-disciplinary academic scholarship to inform the process of making public policy.

In partnership with the Department of History and the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, and supported by a generous grant from The Joyce Foundation of Chicago, Illinois, SARC serves as a clearinghouse of information and a catalyst for new scholarly work.