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Heading to a national park? Now you can pack heat
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Evil May 21 2009, 06:29 PM Post #1
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WASHINGTON — Here's a list of stuff the typical American family can legally carry into national parks this summer: sleeping bag, toothbrush, change of underwear . . . loaded guns.

Thanks to a 279-147 vote Wednesday in the House of Representatives , visitors to the nation's parks and wildlife refuges will be able to carry weapons there if they abide by state weapons laws.

The bill is on its way to President Barack Obama , who faces a dilemma: Gun rights advocates attached the provision to a sweeping overhaul of the credit card industry, an initiative Obama strongly supports, so he has little choice but to let the gun section become law.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said only that Obama "looks forward" to signing the bill "as quickly as possible," and didn't mention the gun provision.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3237180;_ylt=Ahr_wQ0RZBaZIhEugQDqULgDW7oF

Pretty good arguments on both sides of this issue. I'm interested to see whether their actually is an increase in violence with this in place. I suspect that there won't be.
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Nuke May 22 2009, 03:29 AM Post #2
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God, I hate it when they slap irrelevant amendments onto bills.
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