[Mulder]

ping

[coconutt2000]

Makes sense to me... But I still think we need to find some way to guarantee second amendment rights and ensure responsible gun ownership and use.

I would hate to be shot by a fellow camper because they were twitchy on the trigger.

[LurkedLongEnough]

The dawn of reciprocity.

[snopercod]

Would this include Ft. Marcy Park? I hear that's a dangerous place.

[Jim Noble]

I was a sixteen year old from New York City when I went into the Glacier backcountry for the first time. At the trailhead, we passed the sign banning firearms.

We rounded a bend, and the guides we were travelling with dismounted and took out their guns.

My eyes bugged out. At home, I didn't know anybody who had a gun, and I didn't know anybody who broke the law.

After riding for a couple of hours, I worked up the courage to ask the head guy about it, and he revealed a Law of Nature I hadn't studied in school:

"Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six".

Presumably, this rule is still in effect, even in out National Parks.

[Squantos]

I don't spend time in National Parks for just that reason. In fact I vist no place that doesn't allow or trust me to defend myself or my loved ones. If the sign says no firearms then I don't go.......period.

I'd like to say I don't spend my dollars at such places but uncle sugar keeps giving em my tax dollars so the point is pretty much moot as to economics per se........

Stay safe !

[1066AD]

Good idea. CCW holders have had training.
It's been said many times that handwritten letters get the most attention. Emails are too easy to ignore unless you can make your point in the "subject" line.

[Melinda in TN]

I'm a permit holder and I always take my gun when I go to a National Park, sign or no sign.

One time my husband and I took our horses to the Cherokee National Forest to ride with friends. I had a leather holster that I kept attached to the saddle beside the saddle horn and within easy reach. On this particular day, the rest of the group had been running and I chose to go at a walk so my horse and I were alone. A four-wheel drive truck load of drunks pulled up beside and attempted to harass me. I unsnapped the strap over the trigger guard and they saw the pistol. Without another word they decided to leave. Right after that a ranger pulled alongside and asked me what I was doing riding alone in the mountains. I explained and while I was explaining he saw the gun. He stared at it just a second, looked at me and said "Have a nice day and be careful". He never mentioned the gun. I guess he figured any female alone in the mountains of TN needed protection because he never said a word about the gun.

[cavtrooper21]

CCW ping!


Good-bye Katie the Hillary clone, hello CCW in Kansas.....

[Joe Brower]

[RJL]

Bump

[Double Tap]

I would never deprive myself of the experience and wonder of some of our National Parks. I have visited Glacier, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, Big Bend, Mesa Verde... and I must tell you, I've never been unarmed.

Yep, concealed means concealed.

[Mini-14]

Done

[Double Tap]

Any person that goes into the National Parks needs to read this:

http://www.rangerfop.com/danger03.htm

Especially the parks on our southern border.

And I can attest that the management in Big Bend is willfully allowing illegal aliens to commit crimes in the park. Their words "The Rio Grande is NOT a national border, but only a feature of the landscape."

[gitmo]

It has always amazed me that government owned property is automatically a Constitution-Free Zone.