(not a new topic, but details now becoming available)

http://www.sltrib.com/outdoors/ci_14403334


New rules will allow visitors to Zion National Park to carry semiautomatic rifles as they hike Angel's Landing.

Shotguns can accompany campers' Coleman stoves on Dinosaur National Monument's Split Mountain beach. Want your pistol on your hip while pitching a tent at Bryce Canyon National Park's Sunset Campground? No problem, as long as you don't actually pull the trigger.

On Feb. 22, the long-standing ban on guns in national parks and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service-administered wildlife refuges will lift, thanks to an amendment Congress attached last year to a credit-card reform bill. The add-on requires parks and refuges to conform to state gun-carry laws.

For the first time, the National Park Service won't have a unified regulation for its 391 parks covering more than 84 million acres in every state (except Delaware), the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. .......

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2010 03:47PM by Frank Furter.