Free In Idaho!

I don’t know about you, but this picture is a perfect argument for the utility and everyday necessity of high cap mags and semi-autos chambered for anything bigger than .223 cal.  308 is a nice number, don’t ya think?  Or perhaps a 12 gauge Rem 870 with an extended magazine loaded with at least BB shells… a flame thrower might be good too.

Look at the SIZE of that thing!  I hope that one is dead.  Maybe not.  I think the guy is humming that old Jacko tune “Ben“…

Ever been to one of the big National Parks to hike or camp, and discovered that if you enter with your firearm you are breaking the law?  It was a shock to me the first time too (before I was married I did a lot of solo hiking and camping).  The NRA and many other gun rights groups have been trying for more than five years to get this policy changed, and perhaps now we have an Interior Secretary who might be willing to hear this idea out.  Our Idaho Senator Mike Crapo has drafted a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne concerning this, as reported on the NRA-ILA site

..Idaho Senator Mike Crapo requested today that prohibitions that keep law-abiding citizens from transporting and carrying firearms on certain public lands be removed. In a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne spearheaded by Crapo and signed by 46 other Senators, Crapo cited regulations by the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service as infringing on constitutional rights of individuals. He also pointed out that other federal agencies have deferred to state law regarding firearms on lands under federal management.

The meat of the letter is in these lines

“These regulations infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners, who wish to transport and carry firearms on or across these lands.”
“We support an exception to these regulations to allow law-abiding citizens to transport and carry firearms consistent with state law where the National Park Service sites and the National Wildlife Refuges are located.”
“These inconsistencies in firearms regulations for public lands are confusing, burdensome and unnecessary.”

The letter has been signed by 46 other Senators, from both sides of the aisle, including Baucus (D-MT) and Vitter (D-MT), Johnson (D-SD), Pryor (D-AR) and Lincoln (D-AR).  McCain is, not surprisingly, the only candidate who signed it.

I can’t find a handy web form to email Secretary Kempthorne, but you can use the Department address (like Senator Crapo did) if you’d like to add your voice to this request.  The address is

Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240