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Petition to amend gun ban in Federal parks

The Virginia Citizens Defense League has petitioned Dept of Interior to amend its regulations relating to National Parks, which presently forbid close to all carrying of a weapon. Since it's a bit hard to deal with a grizzly barehanded, there is quite a good case to be made. As the petition notes, the Park Service itself has a publication on the ten most dangerous national parks...
(If you follow the links, you can see that the re-enactment of the Siege of Yorktown had to be moved off the battlefield, which is a park, because ... uh .... the ban applies to muskets and bayonets, too).

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