Obama will not appeal Conceald Carry in Nat'l Parks decision

[GlockFan1954]

volokh.com

Which means we will have to wait until the Interior Department does its environmental impact statement under NEPA.

This whole decision was a farce - there is no serious argument that *handguns* would pose a serious risk to wildlife in parks. Or that concealed license holders are dangerous to civilians.

My understanding though is that NEPA and EISs are basically just an FYI requirement and have no real bite - as long as the interior department doesn't initiate rulemaking to change the rule we'll still get concealed carry in parks.

 

[General Geoff]

I don't understand how carrying guns has an environmental impact at all. It's like doing a study on people wearing combat boots, or sunglasses.

In the rare event where someone carrying a gun actually needs to discharge it, chances are likely that said discharge is preventing a loss of life that far outweighs any minute environmental damage that 300 grains or less of lead, and some powder residue will cause.

 

[GEM]

The thing that always gets me about this park decision is that Bush waited till the end of his term almost to move on this. He could have down it early on and we could have had a gun friendly administration to deal with appeals, etc.

What did you expect from the Obama administration? What a surprise?