National Parks to Allow Right-to-Carry

**tuck0411** · December 05, 2008, 13:36

Good news for a change....

National Parks to Allow Right-to-Carry

Friday, December 05, 2008

Fairfax, Va. - The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has announced the final amended version of its changes to rules on carrying of firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. DOI’s move will restore the rights of law-abiding gun owners who wish to transport and carry firearms for lawful purposes on most DOI lands, and will make federal law consistent with the state law in which these public lands are located. The National Rifle Association (NRA) led the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms on these federal lands.

“Today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of the Interior brings clarity and uniformity for law-abiding gun owners visiting our national parks,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “We are pleased that the Interior Department recognizes the right of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families while enjoying America's National Parks and wildlife refuges.”

DOI announced the rule change today and will publish the new regulations in the Federal Register. The new regulations allow right-to-carry permit holders to exercise their Second Amendment rights on national park and wildlife refuges in those states that recognize such permits. The move will provide consistency 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, Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands allowed the carrying of firearms, while lands managed by DOI did not.

The NRA has long held that amendments to those regulations were needed to reflect the changed legal situations with respect to state laws on carrying firearms. Earlier this year, fifty-one U.S. Senators sent a strong bipartisan letter to the DOI supporting the move to make state firearms laws applicable to national park lands and refuges.

“These changes respect the Second Amendment rights of honest citizens as they enjoy our public lands,” concluded Cox. “We applaud the Interior Department’s efforts to amend these out of date regulations.”

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/News....aspx?ID=11895

StoneyCreekMrMauser · December 05, 2008, 14:47

Sweet!

Jez Cruzen · December 05, 2008, 17:33

I've been waiting patiently for that billt to pass and br inacted. Now I can enjoy my motorcycle rides on the Blue Ridge Pkwy without fear of detainment and arrest.

Munster30 · December 05, 2008, 20:33

Jus' playin' Devils Advocate here. Let's see how long it takes the new Prez to change the rules.
Just sayin'.

55bird · December 05, 2008, 22:12

Hoorah!Could this include the Everglades too?

**indy_Muaddib** · December 08, 2008, 15:01

everglades is a registered national pack so it does count.

the two local wildlife parks already got it posted that carry is legal.

brownknees · December 08, 2008, 15:22

Stupid question:
Is a National Forest a National Park?

daschnoz · December 08, 2008, 15:43

Quote:

Originally posted by brownknees
Stupid question:
Is a National Forest a National Park?

If they are, that would open up quite a bit of public land for hunting...

**JohnnyMac** · December 08, 2008, 16:08

Quote:

Originally posted by brownknees
Stupid question:
Is a National Forest a National Park?

NO.

National Forests are managed by the USDA, through the US Forest Service as multi-use areas (recreation and resource extraction).

National Parks are managed by the Dept of Interior, through the US Park Service, as primary recreational (except hunting), cultural preservation, historical type things.

National Monuments are the "farm-team" for National Parks.

Any clearer?

JMc

December 05, 2008, 13:36	#1
tuck0411 Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 29165 Join Date: May 2007 Location: WA Posts: 2,003	National Parks to Allow Right-to-Carry Good news for a change.... National Parks to Allow Right-to-Carry Friday, December 05, 2008 Fairfax, Va. - The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has announced the final amended version of its changes to rules on carrying of firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. DOI’s move will restore the rights of law-abiding gun owners who wish to transport and carry firearms for lawful purposes on most DOI lands, and will make federal law consistent with the state law in which these public lands are located. The National Rifle Association (NRA) led the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms on these federal lands. “Today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of the Interior brings clarity and uniformity for law-abiding gun owners visiting our national parks,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. “We are pleased that the Interior Department recognizes the right of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families while enjoying America's National Parks and wildlife refuges.” DOI announced the rule change today and will publish the new regulations in the Federal Register. The new regulations allow right-to-carry permit holders to exercise their Second Amendment rights on national park and wildlife refuges in those states that recognize such permits. The move will provide consistency 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, Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands allowed the carrying of firearms, while lands managed by DOI did not. The NRA has long held that amendments to those regulations were needed to reflect the changed legal situations with respect to state laws on carrying firearms. Earlier this year, fifty-one U.S. Senators sent a strong bipartisan letter to the DOI supporting the move to make state firearms laws applicable to national park lands and refuges. “These changes respect the Second Amendment rights of honest citizens as they enjoy our public lands,” concluded Cox. “We applaud the Interior Department’s efforts to amend these out of date regulations.” http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/News....aspx?ID=11895 __________________ "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." -- John Adams "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." - Patrick Henry "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." -- C.S. Lewis

December 05, 2008, 20:33	#4
Munster30 Registered FALaholic #: 3198 Join Date: May 2001 Location: Washington State Posts: 9,550	Jus' playin' Devils Advocate here. Let's see how long it takes the new Prez to change the rules. Just sayin'. __________________ “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will take the strong horse” Osama bin Laden It has been the fault of both pacifism and liberalism in the past that they have ignored the immense burden of inherited evil under which society and civilization labour and have planned an imaginary world for an impossible humanity. We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

December 05, 2008, 22:12	#5
55bird Registered FALaholic #: 799 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Tampa,Fl,U.S.A. Posts: 1,041	Hoorah!Could this include the Everglades too? __________________ The very things my grade school teachers of the 1960's warned me about communism,my government is today:skull:

December 08, 2008, 15:01	#6
indy_Muaddib Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 17581 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tampa FL Posts: 3,046	everglades is a registered national pack so it does count. the two local wildlife parks already got it posted that carry is legal. __________________ All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are. -H.L. Mencken 1919 Were not that lucky.

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December 05, 2008, 14:47	#2
StoneyCreekMrMauser Registered FALaholic #: 32185 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tennessee, the patron state of shootin' stuff Posts: 1,633	Sweet!

December 05, 2008, 17:33	#3
Jez Cruzen Registered FALaholic #: 5331 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: East Coast Posts: 753	I've been waiting patiently for that billt to pass and br inacted. Now I can enjoy my motorcycle rides on the Blue Ridge Pkwy without fear of detainment and arrest.

December 08, 2008, 15:22	#7
brownknees Registered FALaholic #: 14917 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: mid atlantic Posts: 12,015	Stupid question: Is a National Forest a National Park?