FireArm Friday: Why Should Your Family Be Defenseless in A National Park? - #2A
GOP Rep Has National Park Gun Ban In His Crosshairs
GOP Rep Has National Park Gun Ban In His Crosshairs
(People who disarm just to go to the toilet off a hiking trail at a National Park often do not magically re-arm upon leaving that building and remain a target for evil-doers. The number of people who disappear in National Parks every year is outrageous. Check out the Missing 411 series. - DD)
(Harold Hutchison) - epublican Indiana Rep. Rudy Yakym introduced legislation Thursday to end a blanket ban on carrying firearms in National Park Service facilities, saying it will allow park rangers to manage the parks as opposed to policing law-abiding citizens.
Currently, while visitors are allowed to carry firearms on National Park lands in accordance with state law, they cannot carry the firearms into buildings, nor can they carry on land owned or managed by the Army Corps of Engineers. Yakym introduced the Federal Lands Lawful Carry Act, saying it was time to end those policies.
“We should push the legislation now because we should not wait for a court to resolve what my bill can fix outright,” Yakym told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If we can fix this permanently across the country now, we should do this now in the House and take action, as opposed to waiting for the courts to sort this out.”
The bill is supported by Gun Owners of America (GOA), the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). SAF and the Firearms Policy Coalition sued the Trump administration over the ban in March before filing an amended complaint in June.
Yakym argued that law-abiding citizens should not have to give up their Second Amendment rights just because they needed to make a pit stop while visiting a…
