transport through National Parks

[Solitar]

Anyone - re transport of guns and ammo through Yellowstone & Teton. What if the handguns, rifles, and maybe an AK were packed away (and hard to get to) separate from ammo? What are their restrictions? Reckon I could call and ask for a friend traveling from the east coast;-}

 

[Dagny]

From the horses...
http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/e-mail/weapons.htm

"unloaded weapons may be possessed within a temporary lodging or mechanical mode of conveyance when such implements are rendered temporarily inoperable or are packed, cased or stored in a manner that will prevent their ready use. "

 

[The Plainsman]

Not quite in response to your question, but on the same general topic - This morning, as a young friend of mine was leaving my home (where we can shoot in my back yard), he placed his unloaded pistol, case and ammo on the floor of the passenger side of his car. He is new to shooting and only now is learning some of the "quirks" of our "gun culture". As he prepared to back out of the drive, he stopped and asked if he was legal in transporting his gun that way. I replied that technically, he was not, but that in our community, he would probably not be bothered even if he was stopped on his way home. It suddenly dawned on him (a new junior high American history teacher) that as a law abidding citizen, he was thrust into a situation where he, an upstanding member of the community, was in jeopardy of violating some obscur gun law while any BG would simply keep his illegal gun where it do the most good if he needed it and to Hell with the law. It was a real revelation to him. I'm sure he will add some flavor to his rendition of the American Revolution and the events preceding and following it, as the new school year gets underway.

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If "the people" in the 1st, 4th, 9th & 10th amendments, means "the people", why do some folks think "the people" in the 2nd amendment means "the state"?

 

[PreserveFreedom]

Last time I camped in Gila National forest, it was with my Beretta on my hip. OOPS!

 

[deanf]

National Forest does not equal National Park.

Generally ok to carry in National Forests.

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"Anyone feel like saluting the flag which the strutting ATF and FBI gleefully raised over the smoldering crematorium of Waco, back in April of ‘93?" -Vin Suprynowicz