Matthew Kilgo is the managing attorney with The Law Offices of Matthew Kilgo. He is an experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on firearms litigation, including criminal cases, weapons-carry related matters, and regulatory firearms issues at the state and federal levels. Mr. Kilgo worked as a Georgia prosecutor, first with the Cherokee County Solicitor’s Office, then as an assistant solicitor in the City of Atlanta and in Cobb County, Georgia. Mr. Kilgo served as a felony trial prosecutor in the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney’s Office and, later as regional counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America’s criminal anti-piracy program in the southeast. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the State of Georgia Supreme Court, the State of Georgia Court of Appeals as well as the Cobb Bar Association and the Georgia Chapter, and is a founding member a past president of the American Council of Second Amendment Lawyers. Mr. Kilgo earned his B.A. degree from Auburn University and his J.D. degree from Georgia State University College of Law.

Matt is the author of “Georgia Gun Law – Armed and Educated”, a book on state and federal gun rights, use of force, and self-defense. Matt has trained the public in more than 400 Second Amendment/ Use of Force seminars and works every day to protect the rights of his clients in criminal cases, self-defense matters, Weapons Carry License applications and denial hearings, and in advancing gun- rights issues in Georgia.