According to the Brady Bunch et al.
Late last week, gun violence prevention groups - the Brady Campaign, the Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence and the Violence Policy Center - sent a letter to Secretary Kempthorne indicating that "given the heightened security risks in the post-9/11 world, as well as contemporary concerns about poaching on federal lands, we find the Reagan Administration regulation to be both necessary and appropriate."
A news release by a retiree organization states:
The current rules in no way prohibit guns in parks, but they do work to discourage that tiny percentage of irresponsible individuals who would engage in poaching and target practice at the expense of irreplaceable natural and historic sites."
Because CCW holders are the ones poaching and shooting people. Someone who breaks the law by poaching or is stupid enough to have "target practive" in a National Park isn't being "discouraged" by any restrictions.
These are the real "Gunloons" and they're going completely off the deep end.
Good ol' Josh Sugarmann has taken time out searching Google to put in his .02.
Hattip to Kaveman for the links.
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Looks like Sugarman couldn't resist hoppin' aboard this lunacy.
In a lesson in understatement, the letter adds, "Moreover, wildlife will not remain easily viewable when it is being shot at."
"The increased opportunity for vandalism and other dangerous activities by "slob shooters" who would now have their loaded weapons ready."
"If it is no longer illegal to have loaded weapons in parks, the number of charges that can be brought against those involved in illegal drug operations will be reduced."
full text... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/want-loaded-guns-in-natio_b_85083.html
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