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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: DDMac on October 12, 2008, 05:53:32 AM

Title: Up in Arms in the National Parks
Post by: DDMac on October 12, 2008, 05:53:32 AM

Below is a link to today's news on drug manufacturers using our national parks for their operations on a vast scale, and the harm they do to the environment via the chemicals needed to carry out their agricultural invasion.

 http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/3719321/

Does anyone know how many hikers just vanish from the piney woods every year? Or end up in pieces, presumably from wildlife attacks? I am no longer the wild eyed, lock'em up, anti-drug guy I was in my youth. We have lost that war, and it is just another industry of government for making (taking) taxpayer's money. Anyway, I'm curious as to the status of the Federal bill to permit carry of firearms in national parks? Did it pass and go into effect or still hanging? Pot growers around here(Central NC) put out booby traps but don't stand and fight or take out a hiker like I imagine they would in a vast forest setting, but I am armed in the woods anyway. Hell, I'm armed when I get the paper in the driveway.

Thanks, Mac.

Title: Re: Up in Arms in the National Parks
Post by: CJS3 on October 12, 2008, 12:54:35 PM

Quote from: DDMack on October 12, 2008, 05:53:32 AM

I am armed in the woods anyway. Hell, I'm armed when I get the paper in the driveway.

+1   I don't tell and they don't ask. I always carry concealed, except during hunting season.
During hunting season, in the public lands where I hunt (National Forest) I openly carry a handgun with my rifle. Every Warden or Forest Service employee I've ever run in to has not batted an eye lash and the few times I made "official enquires" I was told that during the season they don't care.