National Parks & Guns: VCDL Needs Gun Groups to Sign Petition!

Packing.org ^ | 12/21/2004 | Phil Van Cleave

[Mulder]

Do you want to carry in National Parks in your state (assume no state law against it)?

Please read on!

VCDL has finally got a Petition for Rule Making (PRM) ready to present to the Department of the Interior. Unlike writing letters to the Department of the Interior or signing regular petitions, all of which the DOI can ignore, the PRM will force the DOI to consider allowing permit holders to carry in National Parks. They will have to hold a public comment period. I will advise when that happens, as then we will need lots of comments sent to them by everyone on Packing and elsewhere.

For now we need as many national and state organizations to sign on to it as possible. We are NOT looking for individuals to be a petitioner – but individuals should contact their state and national organizations to encourage them to sign on to the PRM ASAP. I will update the end of this message with those organizations who have signed-on as I receive them.

National and state gun organizations: print out the entire petition so you can read it and fill in the last page. You can then either fax the last page to me at: 804-739-8376

Or you can mail the last page to me at:

Philip Van Cleave
VCDL
5509 West Bay Court
Midlothian, VA 23112-2506

I will be sending this in around February 1st, 2005 – so please get the signed pages to me as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Here is the link to the PRM:

Organizations signed on to Petition for Rule Making:

Virginia Citizens Defense League, Virginia
Johnstown Rifle and Pistol Club, Pennsylvania
Menoher Sportsmen's Club, Pennsylvania
Grassroots South Carolina, South Carolina

Organizations committing, but not yet signed on to PRM:

Montana Shooting Sports Association, Montana
Kentucky Firearms Foundation, Kentucky

[Mulder]

Phil Van Cleave of Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) posted this over on packing.org.

This would be great if enough RKBA signed the petition and got the "no gun" edicts in the parks rescinded.

[Mulder]

Ping!

[Mulder]

Second Amendment Sisters ping....

[vetvetdoug]

Almost to a man (or woman), the NPS employees are leftist liberal veggie munching environmentalists that are anti-gun from the get go. This is an important bill because I have no doubt that the NPS employees are pushing the anti-gunner stance to then nth' degree.

[Mulder]

http://www.vcdl.org/new/Petition_for_Rulemaking.pdf

[Mulder]

This is an important bill because I have no doubt that the NPS employees are pushing the anti-gunner stance to then nth' degree.

It's not a bill. It's an administrative edict.

A simple signature from Bush or Gale Norton would overturn this.

[lightman]

There was a good article in Law & Order magazine several years ago about how violent crime was on the increase in the National Parks. This measure would be part of the cure!

[basil]

Thanks for the ping, Mulder. I've downloaded it to read, and will be signing it.

[Buzwardo]

Ping.

[Travis McGee]

Bang!

[TERMINATTOR]

You don't need a "permit" for an inalienable right. Just to make it perfectly clear that the government was NOT granted the power to infringe on our RKBA, the following was added to the Constitution - "A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." -- Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

So called "permits", just encourage criminals in government to further lawlessness.

[Travis McGee]

I agree, but you will not get much of a reaction by quoting that to them as they put on the hand cuffs.

[Lurker]

Yep.

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