No Appeal of Court Ruling on Guns in Parks

NY Times ^ | April 18, 2009 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[neverdem]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will not appeal a court ruling that prohibits carrying loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.

Last month, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court here struck down the policy allowing guns in parks. She called the rule, issued in the last days of the Bush administration, severely flawed and said officials had failed to evaluate its possible environmental impact, as required. She set a deadline of Monday for the Interior Department to indicate its likely response...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Big surprise there.

[Cheetahcat]

Wait a minute this is our country NOT the Kenyans he can go to Hell.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly”

I’m stuned...

[ChicagahAl]

"Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court"

Why is it, that.... Oh, never mind.

[Still Thinking]

Well, was the original prohibition backed by an EIR? No? Why would the prohibition, which was novel when began, get a pass and the repeal which simply returns to a situation that already existed, need an EIR? So as far as I can see, the PROHIBITION is null and void till the government can complete an EIR, if they want to reinstate it.

[voveo]

So does someone have a case after getting mauled by a bear if they are a legal gun owner who was denied protection?

[fr_freak]

She called the rule, issued in the last days of the Bush administration, severely flawed and said officials had failed to evaluate its possible environmental impact, as required.

Everybody needs to pay close attention to the methods that are being used to establish totalitarianism. Environmentalism is just one way in which the government will insert itself into every single facet of American life. It is asinine on its face, but that won't stop them. What possible environnmental impact could bringing a gun have on a national park land? None, but that's not the point, is it?

[Still Thinking]

In fact, if EIR’s are now found to be relevant and no change can be made to gun regs without one, seems like we could start a traveling road show touring the country getting various infringements overturned on the grounds that the legislators who passed them never did one.

[Carry_Okie]

The O-bots promised, "We won't take your guns."

Yeah, right, they'll let the UN do it by treaty.

[BigCinBigD]

I hope Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly gets eaten by a bear.

[nathanbedford]

An excellent point!

There is another aspect which is equally chilling. There can be little doubt that this judge was picked as part of the venue shopping for a reliable liberal judge. The Obama administration declined to take an appeal from what was probably a preordained verdict.

Our system of justice is designed to act on real cases and controversies. If this is the kind of charade I expect it was, we do not have a real case or controversy, we have a contrivance designed to elicit a political result from the judiciary branch and we see that branch conniving with the administration. This is not the administration of justice, this is politics by other means.

So we have two levels of concern: The exploitation of environmentalism for political results that have no rational relationship to environmental laws or regulations. The procedural jiggering of our court system to effect that exploitation.

[ExSoldier]

So does someone have a case after getting mauled by a bear if they are a legal gun owner who was denied protection?

Doubt it. Something called assumption of the risk. If you know there's BARS in them THAR woods and you might get BIT then if so choose and get bit; you lose.

[Grizzled Bear]

So does someone have a case after getting mauled by a bear rapist, thug or pervert if they are a legal gun owner who was denied protection?

[Charlespg]

can the GOA NRA ect bring a lawsuit ?

[Inyo-Mono]

What possible environnmental impact could bringing a gun have on a national park land? None, but that's not the point, is it?

It is that one lead bullet fired in a national park every two years or so against an attacking grizzly bear that might cause a condor to eat the bullet and die. I'm serious. That is the way liberals think.

[Jeff Gordon]

Just in case anyone actually believed Obama when the sneaky little bitch said that the Second Amendment was an individual right, we can now refer to this ruling.

[Tolsti2]

I’ll carry anyway, screw em.

[Redbob]

WTF is the “environmental impact” of me carrying a handgun in a National Park?

Unless I shoot some scumbag, he falls in a stream and pollutes the water...

[Redbob]

“Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly”

I've heard that beeyotch's name before, and it's never been a good thing.