Opie
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I wanted to get a thread started on National Parks and firearm possession. If I understand correctly (I've had a hard time finding this in writing) you are not allowed to have a firearm in a National Park, regardless of whether you are carrying open or concealed, regardless of whether you have a CWP or not. For me, a time that I would like to have personal protection is when I am all alone in the middle of the woods, so I thought I'd do a little research on incidents in National Parks.The articles beloware from the National Parks' web site. Please add your own for discussion.
It looks like the NPS updates the news regularly, and I could only see the stories for the last seven days. There was recently an article about Hot Springs National Park in which Rangers used a Taser to subdue an individual, but that one seems to have dropped off the list. -Opie
Two fugitives wanted for an armed Iowa bank robbery were captured in Yellowstone National Park on June 14th. They had spent time in five National Park since the May 8th robbery. Besides Iowa, where the robbery took place, and Yellowstone [Wyoming] where they were apprehended, the suspects had traveled to the Grand Canyon [Nothern Arizona] and Las Vegas [Nevada]. The officials found the suspects when they were investigating a hit-and-run accident. They did not locate them as a direct result of investigating the bank robbery. Thesuspects fled/resisted arrest. A Ranger used a Taser gun to subdue one suspect.
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2636
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2654&urlarea=incidents
An aggressive black bear was trapped in Yellostone National Park June 20th and later euthanized. The bear had been foraging for food in campsites, had broken into a car, and had charged visitors. Rangers were unsuccessful in scaring the bear away from the camp sites.
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2646&urlarea=incidents
Multiple incidents in the Grand Canyon National Park: an incident with a stolen handgun, arrests for felony warrants, traffic stop leading to struggle and use of a Taser, and a domestic dispute involving a knife.
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2645&urlarea=incidents
I wanted to get a thread started on National Parks and firearm possession. If I understand correctly (I've had a hard time finding this in writing) you are not allowed to have a firearm in a National Park, regardless of whether you are carrying open or concealed, regardless of whether you have a CWP or not. For me, a time that I would like to have personal protection is when I am all alone in the middle of the woods, so I thought I'd do a little research on incidents in National Parks.The articles beloware from the National Parks' web site. Please add your own for discussion.
It looks like the NPS updates the news regularly, and I could only see the stories for the last seven days. There was recently an article about Hot Springs National Park in which Rangers used a Taser to subdue an individual, but that one seems to have dropped off the list. -Opie
Two fugitives wanted for an armed Iowa bank robbery were captured in Yellowstone National Park on June 14th. They had spent time in five National Park since the May 8th robbery. Besides Iowa, where the robbery took place, and Yellowstone [Wyoming] where they were apprehended, the suspects had traveled to the Grand Canyon [Nothern Arizona] and Las Vegas [Nevada]. The officials found the suspects when they were investigating a hit-and-run accident. They did not locate them as a direct result of investigating the bank robbery. Thesuspects fled/resisted arrest. A Ranger used a Taser gun to subdue one suspect.
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2636
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2654&urlarea=incidents
An aggressive black bear was trapped in Yellostone National Park June 20th and later euthanized. The bear had been foraging for food in campsites, had broken into a car, and had charged visitors. Rangers were unsuccessful in scaring the bear away from the camp sites.
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2646&urlarea=incidents
Multiple incidents in the Grand Canyon National Park: an incident with a stolen handgun, arrests for felony warrants, traffic stop leading to struggle and use of a Taser, and a domestic dispute involving a knife.
http://www.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Incidents&id=2645&urlarea=incidents