Interior Department to Allow Firearms in Parks and Refuges
December 7, 2008 by Eric OKeefe
Filed under Eric OKeefe, Feature, Federal Policy, Field Reporters, Public Land, Recreation, Topics
On Friday the Interior Department ruled that Americans will be able to carry concealed weapons in some federal parks and wildlife refuges. The announcement overturns a decades-old Reagan Administration regulation that required all guns brought into national parks and wildlife refuges be unloaded and kept in an out-of-the-way place such as the trunk of the car.











