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As this is the LASN Park?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s issue, we thought you might want to know this news about our greatest parks?EUR??,,????'?????<??oeour national parks. Visitors to national parks have been allowed to bring in guns if they are stored out of reach and not loaded. That changes beginning February 22, 2010 when people can possess firearms in national parks consistent with the laws of the state in which the park is located.
The new law was an amendment sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and, under the inexplicable and mysterious meanderings of Congress, was appended to the Credit Cardholders?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR? Bill of Rights Act of 2009. The amendment was to allow people to openly carry rifles, shotguns and semi-automatic weapons in national parks if the firearm was in compliance with state law. The Senate passed the amendment by a vote of 67-29. President Obama signed the bill into law in May 2009.
The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees (CNPSR) notes visitors may soon be visiting Gettysburg National Military Battlefield in Pennsylvania and encounter other visitors carrying rifles, and not the historic kind; that at Wolf Trap National Park in Virginia, because of permissive state gun laws, you may witness people carrying firearms in the lawn seating area; that when visiting the Grand Canyon, given Arizona?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s permissive gun laws, you may be enjoying the view of the canyon along with a visitor with an assault rifle slung on his shoulder.
Note: Mississippi senators voted Feb. 10, 2010 to join Tennessee in allowing handgun-permit holders to carry their guns in most Mississippi parks, bars and unsecured government buildings unless the owners of those facilities post notices barring guns.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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