Senators Introduce Bi-Partisan Legislation To Restore Second Amendment in National Parks
April 2nd, 2009 by Syd
Fairfax, Va. – Today, U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Max Baucus (D-MT), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) introduced legislation to restore the Second Amendment rights of visitors in national parks and wildlife refuges. The current Department of the Interior (DOI) regulations were amended by the Bush Administration in 2008, allowing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves by carrying a concealed firearm in national parks and wildlife refuges. However, early this year, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. granted anti-gun plaintiffs a preliminary injunction against implementation of the new rule. The NRA has been working for the past several years in the regulatory, legal, and legislative arenas to achieve this policy change.
This bill would provide uniformity across our nation’s federal lands and put an end to the patchwork of regulations that governed different lands managed by different federal agencies. In the past, only Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands allowed the carrying of firearms, while National Parks and Wildlife Refuges did not.
Source: NRA-ILA
I subscribe to the “better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6″ philosophy. Carry legal whenever you can, use discretion when ever you can’t. The remoteness of national parks is such that my discretion leans toward preservation. Make of that what you will. I’ve always carried in national forests and BLM areas, as well as urban jungles. The wildlife can be deadly quickly.
I’m with Ed.
I will no longer camp at Big Bend, on river road, with Mexico less than 200 yards away.
I won’t hike the North Cascades park in california without a gun, due to Marijuana growers on the park willing to shoot you to protect their illegal farm.
It just isn’t smart to go in some of these areas unarmed unless you have a desire to become a statistic.
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