On June 23, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, a case that recast Second Amendment jurisprudence and unleashed a tidal wave of lawsuits challenging virtually every existing gun law in America. In this controversial and ideologically charged decision the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in American history that the Second Amendment confers a constitutional right to carry a gun outside the home for reasons of self-defense. In another unprecedented move the court rejected the use of the standard tools of constitutional analysis, including the use of balancing tests that weigh the social cost of the exercise of the right to bear arms: Moving forward, courts must confine their analysis to “text, history, and tradition,” an approach that legal scholars refer to as “originalism by analogy.” The participants in this roundtable draw on their experiences and training in history and law to reflect on the role of history and historians in contemporary legal debates over the Second Amendment. They will discuss how they have brought history to bear on gun-related cases in their research and consultation and what has surprised them and suggest promising topics for needed future historical research. They also will present historical methods and digital tools that are used in their research and teaching. The roundtable aims to explore a variety of topics in considering the needed historical methods and standards that will guide future gun law and policy and help achieve a more accurate and robust reckoning with America’s gun past. Our session is multi-disciplinary and includes an undergraduate as well as junior and senior scholars. The roundtable will include structured conversation with panelists as well as ample time for audience questions and questions. This session will highlight the creation of a historians’ field guide for the courts that has been the product of collaboration and input from academic historians and libraries across the country. The broad audience for the session will include social and cultural historians, archivists, legal historians, historians of technology, teachers, undergraduates and graduate students, public historians, and anyone interested in new digital and AI methods combined with archival research.