Guns blamed for starting wildfires in parched West

Associated Press ^ | 7/3/12 | BRIAN SKOLOFF and NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Associated Press

[mdittmar]

(AP) — Campfires, fireworks and even lit cigarettes can spark wildfires. In the tinder-dry West, there is growing concern about the threat from guns.

This year, officials believe target shooting or other firearms use sparked at least 21 wildfires in Utah and nearly a dozen in Idaho. Shooting is also believed to have caused fires in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.

Those concerns come as states grapple with ways to cut the risk of new fires ahead of the Fourth of July holiday when many people fire their guns to celebrate the nation's independence.

[mdittmar]

AP weighs in;)

[doc1019]

Global warming has guns! Who knew.

[Da Coyote]

Bull Obama.

Skanky, stinky bull Obama.

[EGPWS]

Those concerns come as states grapple with ways to cut the risk of new fires ahead of the Fourth of July holiday when many people fire their guns to celebrate the nation's independence.

They need a guns for fireworks trade program to save the tree's.

[ZinGirl]

busted. THIS guy started it?

[mo]

I hear they cause itchy teeth, constipation and heartburn. They also interfere with The Won’s great plans for the USA....

[umgud]

Our outdoor gun range is in the dry foothills and won’t allow steel core ammo on the rifle ranges.

[GOPJ]

there is growing concern about the threat from gun...

AP ought to go out there into the 'wilderness' and shoot guns for a few days to see if they can get a spark... not that I'm implying they're suck-ups who buy into any liberal thought thrown at them.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...many people fire their guns to celebrate the nation’s independence...”
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I’ve never done that, and I don’t know anyone who has ever done that.
Am I missing out on something?

[tet68]

Interesting this meme comes just now, when F&F has
failed to work as intended.

They are desperate to disarm us.

[Robert Drobot]

When they run out of excuses....blame the most conscientious wildlife protectors...the hunter.

Environmentalists are a deceitful and despicable lot, a danger to themselves and others.

[tet68]

What is next?
A turn in your gun to vote. program?
It could come to that.
Democrats, vicious in defeat, more vicious when they win.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Sounds like the teenagers in Little Rock who were firing at a mason jar filled with gasoline with a .22.

[Robert Drobot]

Beware: The treaty before the Senate...giving our Constitutional right to bear arms to the United Nothing to regulate private gun ownership in our country.

[easternsky]

So is this why Janet went there?? Never let a Crisis slip by.

[mo]

If F&F had “succeeded” ...it would have explained The Won’s lack of preparation for the November contest...he hadn’t planned for there to be one!!!

[Gene Eric]

>> there is growing concern

Go to Hell.

[barmag25]

Has anybody tried to post comments to the yahoo article? Won’t let me.

[Inyo-Mono]

I have been target shooting for 50 years and have never seen any of my lead bullets cause a spark.

[FlingWingFlyer]

But...but...but I thought it was President Bush who was going around starting all of the fires.