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OMG! Stranded Hiker Fires a .45! In a National Park! OMG
The Truth About Guns ^ | 2 September, 2012 | Dan Zimmerman

Posted on 09/03/2012 11:04:20 AM PDT by marktwain

Chalk up another life saved by a gun. Huh? No really, it happens once in a while. And like lots of unreported DGUs, this won’t show up on any FBI statistical breakdown. Tim Bailey was on a 36-mile hike through Olympic National Park in Washington last Sunday – with his gun! – when he tumbled 150 feet down a ravine and broke his ankle. Though unable to get far, he had enough gear and smarts to keep himself alive for almost four days ’til help arrived. And he used his .45 to get the attention of rescuers . . .

He told columbian.com that once he set up some shelter, collected wood and got a fire going,

… he fired his pistol intermittently from Monday until he was found Wednesday and hoisted out of the ravine by helicopter.

He started with 14 rounds.

“I have five left,” Bailey said in a telephone interview as he and his wife, Whitney, 31, drove home Thursday.

Good boy. He didn’t just pack his heater, be brought an extra mag, too. The gunshots got the searchers into his general area where they found him when they spotted the smoke from his campfire. Paul Helmke was not available to comment.

It is legal to carry firearms in the park but illegal to discharge them inside the park for any reason, [park spokeswoman Rainey McKenna] said.

“If you are legally licensed to carry a firearm in Washington, it is legal to carry it in the park,” McKenna said. The punishment for firing a weapon can be up to six months in jail and $5,000.

“Charges could be pressed against someone, but it is unlikely if they are in a dire situation,” she said.

Good to know the National Park Service can be so magnanimous.


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To: Theoria; All
One of two things Obama has done of good since elected.

I am sure that Obama signed the bill for other reasons, and would have vetoed this part of it if he could have.

21 posted on 09/03/2012 12:53:35 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Sure, was there a effort by the GOP prior to this?


22 posted on 09/03/2012 12:56:00 PM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: Sawdring; DesertRhino
Does anyone ever click on the links?

That is from a game Fallout: New Vegas, the character Joshua Graham aka The Burned Man.

New Vegas has better writing than I have read in many books.

23 posted on 09/03/2012 12:59:38 PM PDT by KC_Lion ( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
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To: Sawdring; DesertRhino
Here try this, it will explain everything.
24 posted on 09/03/2012 1:01:46 PM PDT by KC_Lion ( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
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To: KC_Lion

Fallout is pretty good, but I like Skyrim better.


25 posted on 09/03/2012 1:06:33 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: marktwain

It is legal to carry firearms in the park but illegal to discharge them inside the park for any reason, [park spokeswoman Rainey McKenna] said
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Hmm talk about pandering and trying to please everyone.

‘illegal to discharge ... for any reason’

That is beyond ludicrous, Joseph Heller couldn’t have come up with that one, although Ayn Rand (along the premise that make enough laws and everyone could be a criminal) may and probably did.


26 posted on 09/03/2012 1:17:20 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: EEGator

Fus Ro Yay!

27 posted on 09/03/2012 1:27:11 PM PDT by KC_Lion ( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
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To: KC_Lion

Haha, that’s good.


28 posted on 09/03/2012 1:34:17 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: KC_Lion

Sorry, I played for the NCR. Never saw that guy.


29 posted on 09/03/2012 5:29:21 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

That is for the DLC "Honest Hearts", you have to download it for a fee, but it is well worth it.

The Best New Vegas DLC, Joshua Graham is also the best companion and most interesting character in the game.

It takes place in Zion National Park and you have to fight off a tribe seeking to join Caesars Legion.

30 posted on 09/03/2012 6:18:04 PM PDT by KC_Lion ( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
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