{"id":407175,"date":"2010-03-09T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:13:50","slug":"guns-in-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407175","title":{"rendered":"Guns in National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

KULR Montana:<\/a> A new law that will allow firearms into national parks takes effect Monday. But the law’s passage leaves some visitors of nearby Yellowstone National Park wondering what the new law will mean for them. There’s no doubt that gun control laws are a fiery issue in the U.S., and now the heat is on our national parks. Starting Monday licensed gun owners will be allowed to bring loaded guns into parks like Yellowstone, where they had been previously outlawed. Supporters said the new law will make them feel safer in the park.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“A gun-free zone is one of the most dangerous places you could be in America,” Shipton’s Sporting Goods salesman John Hahn said, “because a criminal knows going into it that his chances of encountering an armed citizen are about zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hahn said dealing with the law afterwards is more appealing to him than risking his safety.<\/p>\n

“I would rather have the judicial system sink its teeth into me than a grizzly bear sink its teeth into me.”<\/p>\n

Some park officials worry that allowing guns into parks will increase illegal poaching, and that guns are not necessary to ensure safety.<\/p>\n

“Yellowstone is a very safe place,” Yellowstone Park Public Affairs Officer Al Nash said. “When it comes to dealing with wildlife, frankly, even our law enforcement commission rangers, who have legally carried guns on duty, carry bear spray to deal with bears.”<\/p>\n

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KULR Montana: A new law that will allow firearms into national parks takes effect Monday. But the law’s passage leaves some visitors of nearby Yellowstone National Park wondering what the new law will mean for them. There’s no doubt that gun control laws are a fiery issue in the U.S., and now the heat is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}