Thankfully the GOP is there to help bring weapons into the national parks, answering that worry that so many Americans talk about every day. "What do we possibly have to do to bring loaded weapons into Yellowstone National Park?" is dinner table conversation throughout the land. Sounds like a great idea for every family and surely nothing could ever go wrong, right? Besides, think of those doggone bison and gray wolf populations that were just starting to recover. Clearly we need to kill nature in order to save it.
U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne says it's time to take a "fresh look" at the long-held ban against bringing loaded weapons into national parks and wildlife areas.
Kempthorne will soon issue new rules, subject to public comment, that could loosen those restrictions to more closely resemble the gun laws of the states where the federal sites are located.
Gun advocates, including the National Rifle Association, and 51 U.S. senators urged the review, including Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina. The current rules "infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners," the senators said in a letter to Kempthorne in December.
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