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I was curious about this just a number of days ago. I took my daughter to Tunica WMA opening weekend of turkey season. First time I have ever set foot on a WMA as far as I can recall, surely the first time to hunt. I'm not real crazy about hunting somewhere that just about anyone has the right to be walking around in the woods...I am not saying that they shouldn't be taking advantage of this public land, just that I am not real crazy about being there at the same time. Being that the hunt was a lottery hunt, and that I got lucky enough to be drawn for opening weekend on the South section (with 11 other people, one of them my buddy), I was willing to try it out...and, I wanted to take my daughter to see the area, being that the WMA now contains a huge percentage of the land that I used to hunt regularly for many years, say maybe 15-20 years ago as a member of a small club up there. On the way back home, I was telling her about hunting Cat Island as a member of that same club when we had several thousand acres leased there years before we went to the hills, and I was surprised to see a sign saying "Cat Island NWR". (I'm not very well informed, I know).
When I got home, I Googled Cat Island NWR (first to make sure that NWR actually meant National Wildlife Reserve (or whatever)), because as I said, I had never even heard of it before. I got to reading the manual that is posted as a pdf online, and it occurred to me that the new law regarding carry on federal parks (or, federal parks and reserves is what I thought it said) should negate carry restrictions on the reserve. Is this correct...can I carry a firearm doing anything on the reserve that I could legally do NOT carrying?