1990
- Historian
– Masters in American History and Museum Studies from the University of Delaware - Author.
- Consultant.
- 2018 TV Personality Discovery Channel show “Master of Arms.”
– show ran for one season - assistant to the firearms curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
- 2011 Midway USA’s Gun Stories
- 2011 – 2020 Curator Cody Firearms Museum
- Curator Emerita and Senior Firearms Scholar
- first-ever female curator running a firearms museum in the United States
- May 2021 testified before the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on The Constitution, in a hearing titled: Stop Gun Violence: Ghost Guns
Ashley Hlebinsky (@historyinheels)
https://centerofthewest.org/2020/07/10/looking-back-moving-forward-a-decade-of-ashley-hlebinsky/
Gun Historian Ashley Hlebinsky Drops Truth Bombs in ‘Ghost Gun’ Hearing
About Ashley Hlebinsky
Ashley Hlebinsky is a firearms historian who studies the material culture of guns. She is one of the best-known public voices on firearms history. Before going to Wyoming she assisted the firearms curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She joined the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, in 2011 as a research fellow, and in 2015 she was named Robert W. Woodruff Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum. The Center has described her as the first woman to run a firearms museum in the United States. She led the museum’s multimillion-dollar renovation, which reopened with a grand opening on July 6, 2019.
When she left the curator post in 2020, she became Curator Emerita and Senior Firearms Scholar. In January 2023 she helped launch the Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming College of Law, and in September 2023 she was named its first executive director. The center aims to be a nonpartisan source of firearms information and to train lawyers in firearms law, which matters as courts now weigh historical tradition in Second Amendment cases. She also works as a museum consultant, expert witness, writer, lecturer and television personality, and she has worked with Wyoming health officials and the VA on suicide prevention.
Key Facts
- 2011: Joined the Buffalo Bill Center of the West as a research fellow
- 2015: Named Robert W. Woodruff Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum
- July 6, 2019: Grand reopening of the renovated Cody Firearms Museum
- 2020: Became Curator Emerita and Senior Firearms Scholar
- September 2023: Named first executive director of the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center
Sources
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Decade of Ashley Hlebinsky (Buffalo Bill Center of the West)
- Firearms Research Center at UW Names Historian Hlebinsky Executive Director (University of Wyoming)
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