Need your help repealing National Parks carry ban

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Smurfslayer

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Some of you already know, but the Department of the Interior is reviewing a VCDL sponsored petition for rule making to amend 36 CFR Regulation 2.4 - the weapons ban - which would permit otherwise law abiding folks to carry weapons on NPS property. I maintain a time line of events here:

http://www.bighammer.net/pages/24/index.htm

If you check out the latest entries, you'll notice that there has been some movement on the issue just after Christmas. It basically comes down to this - We need people to contact their Congressional delegation to push this through. The Virginia Congressional delegation has been very helpful getting responses from DOI. We need everyone that is willing to assist to contact their Congressional delegation - all of them and ask for assistance. Our latest push has been to get "VCDL's petition published for comment in the next Federal Register". Your Congressional delegation can help by contacting DOI on your behalf as a constituent to ... request... DOI's cooperation in this matter.

I know this might not be the highest item on everybody's list, but this issue is on the front burner, right now. You can actually make a difference on this, in a very short time frame. Here is a page I set up to help with suggestions on Congressional contact:

http://www.bighammer.net/pages/22/index.htm

Please take a few minutes to contact your Congressional delegation at your earliest convenience, and don't be deterred by voice mail, or non responsiveness. Keep trying to engage someone until you get a hold of a person who deals with Federal agency concerns, 2nd Amendment issues, etc.

Thanks!
 
My impression on conditions in National Parks, at least the one I frequent (Shenandoah), for the last few years has been mixed. However, when I think about it, I was surprised to realize I didn't visit the park at all in 2005. Not even once. So, I guess it doesn't matter much to me at all anymore.

However, referring to prior years when I have visited more often, my experiences have varied wildly. I have been there on the 4th of July and not met another person on the trail, while other days I have met people by the dozen. In any case, I have met armed rangers on the trail, so you have to behave. Most times, I meet no one.

The more I think about it, the more I realize I have rarely been leaving home for any reason lately. I think I am getting too old to do anything anymore. Given up hiking, camping, shooting, reloading, swimming, and---well, never did anything else.
 
I find it interesting that our govt has no funds to buy shovels needed to repair trails, gravel for parking lots, tables and firepits for campgrounds, etc but has lots of funds to arm and train forest rangers who have an on-the-job death rate so low it's invisible.

Bluetrain, I just love your screen name. Reminds me of a certain famous Bentley frm back in the days when Bentley's weren't just luxury cars.
 
Thank you for the comment about my screen name, Rob P. The name comes from the train in France that goes or used to go to the Riviera. Trying to drive there faster than the train was something of a stunt before the war and someone managed to do it in a Rover motorcar. It goes without saying that I used to own a couple of Rovers, a 2000TC and a 3500 (which had a Buick engine, sort of).

In all honesty, all my experiences in National Parks has been positive and park employees must surely love their jobs. The ones in the West are easily more interesting to me but only because they are so different from anything in the East. Actually, the change in the concept of operation over the years has bothered me a little (this has nothing to do with guns) but the biggest thing is the increase in user fees. If present trends continue (do they ever?), they will turn into what are essentially private places, rather than public. All the same, they still aren't very expensive and you can get a one-year pass for one park for $20 but it costs that much in gas for me to make the trip.
 
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