Park Carry
Last month, the longstanding prohibition on carrying guns in parks was lifted. Now, the new regulations are quite complicated:
Federal law now allows visitors to carry guns in national parks, but you can’t just slip a loaded pistol into your backpack and take a hike.
Pay attention, because this is a little complicated.You will need a concealed weapons permit to carry the loaded gun in the backpack. But you don’t need any kind of permit if you just want to stash your loaded weapon in the tent.
At the same time, unless you feel your life is being threatened, don’t shoot the gun at all.
Ok, that’s not actually complicated at all and seems consistent with most carry laws.
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:57 am
Us gun types is stupid though, hard to remember breath in, breath out.
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
You don’t need a permit to carry if your state does not require one as the bill defaults to whatever the state’s statutes say.
For example, my home state of Arizona currently requires a permit to carry concealed (but that will change soon, a constitutional carry bill is being debated today!) but does not require a permit to carry openly.
March 23rd, 2010 at 11:17 am
Careful of these local news stories on park carry. They wrap up the local laws with the park carry. This article does a pretty good job of keeping it straight if you read the whole thing. California, where the article comes from, requires a concealed permit to carry, thus you must have a California concealed permit to carry in a National Park in California.
They do point out difficulties like Yellowstone where you have to keep track of which state you’re in while in the park so as not to run afoul of reciprocity for your permit.
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
California does not require a permit for open carry of an unloaded revolver or pistol, so I should be able to carry open with magizine or speed loader, then load in my tent for the night.