The Gun Counter

From the email alert;

URGENT ALERT - SPREAD FAR AND WIDE!!!!

I thought the Virginia State Forests' Petition comment period to
allow open and concealed carry in State Forests started in December
for some reason, BUT IT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS!!!

We only have until ***DECEMBER 2nd*** to send in our comments!

We need to FLOOD them with comments supporting the Petition NOW!

I just check and there are only 3 comments, one of them anti.

I just added mine, so there are 4 comments.

Let's make that number swell! PLEASE DO IT NOW.

Here is the link to the Petition. Click on the "Enter a comment"
button to put in your comment:

http://www.townhall.virginia.gov/l/Comm ... itionid=64

Let ROLL!

It's gone from 4 comments to 1168 mostly for it..

Apparently, according to the VCDL, it has passed.
Here's the email that I got:


VCDL - pat yourselves on the back for a job exceptionally well done! The two Petitions for Rule Making that VCDL submitted to the Department of the Interior helped push this issue forward!

This is a STRONG win for gun owners with concealed handgun permits or for those gun owners in states that don't need permits to carry concealed!!!

Basically, if a state allows a person to carry a concealed, loaded, operable handgun, then that person can carry a concealed, loaded, operable handgun in a National Park.

We were concerned that the proposed regulation had an "analogous lands" provision, but it is gone!

Here is a link to the press release:

http://www.doi.gov/news/08_News_Releases/120508.html

Here is a link to the final rule:

http://www.doi.gov/issues/Final%20Rule.pdf

Here is the new regulation:

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Title 36 - Parks, Forests, and Public Property

Chapter 1 - National Park Service, DOI

Part 2 - Resource Protection, Public Use, and Recreation

2.4 Weapons traps and nets. (new paragraph (h))

(h) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Chapter, a person may possess, carry, and transport concealed, loaded, and operable firearms within a national park area in accordance with the laws of the state in which the national park area, or that portion thereof, is located, except as otherwise prohibited by applicable federal law."

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DO **NOT** CARRY IN NATIONAL PARKS OR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES YET!

The new ruling will take effect 30 days AFTER it appears in the Federal Register next week. So, I would say it will be effective no later than January 12th!