[io333]

There's something going on.


http://www.packing.org/news/article.jsp/9912/


I'm not sure what to make of it.

[gunsmith]

VCDL is a great org.

I hope this gets legs!

[motoman]

what I find funny is that any mention of THR at packing.org is promptly deleted. Thats one of the reasons I no longer post there.

[P95Carry]

any mention of THR at packing.org is promptly deleted What?? I have not been a Packing visitor other than for info .... is this for real? I'd sure like to know the why and wherefore of that - really would. I cannot imagine anyone has bad-mouthed Packing from THR and otherwise - heck - I'd have thought we were a total ally.

We are all RKBA and 2nd right?? Where is the problem I wonder.

[bobby68]

why are handguns banned in parks, but allowed in forests?

[Leatherneck]

why are handguns banned in parks, but allowed in forests?

National Forests are administered by the Department of Agriculture, whose panties aren't in a wad over evil guns.

National Parks (including Nat'l monuments, seashores, memorials, etc.) are administered by the National Park Service, under the Department of the Interior. They write their rules into the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The route VCDL is taking is to solicit signatures for a petition for rule-change, which the DOI must address. It's going to take a massive effort; but Phil VanCleave is a perfect leader for such.

TC
TFL Survivor

[org]

I'm gonna predict that this effort, if it gets so far as to move the park service to act, will work out like the effort to arm commercial pilots: The chair warmers at that bureaucracy will slither, slide, postpone, misrepresent, and generally do anything they can to appear to be cooperating without actually changine anything.

I'm all for the effort, and will support it any way I can, but I think it will take an act of congress (literally) and probably several more acts of congress after that to force action on the first act of congress.