CCW in National Parks OK: Department of the Interior Gives in to Common Sense and Individual Rights to Self Protection

The Department of the Interior has finally updated their regulations as many of us have asked them to do for many years now: carrying a concealed firearm in a national park is no longer banned.

According to the NRA_ILA website, “[the new rule] would allow an individual to carry a concealed weapon in national parks and wildlife refuges if, and only if, the individual is authorized to carry a concealed weapon under state law in the state in which the national park or refuge is located.”

Previously, the Department of the Interior banned all concealed carry of firearms under the misguided belief that people would be safer without them.

Thank you to all of you who wrote in to the Department of the Interior supporting this change.  Also, thanks to the NRA for spearheading this effort.  When we all get together for a common purpose, we can get things done.  Lets keep this positive victory in mind as we move forward into 2009.