Proposal targets gun ban for parks [View All]

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AUGUSTA, Maine — Lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday on a proposal to reimpose restrictions on guns within Acadia National Park and along the Appalachian Trail in Maine in response to Congress’ controversial decision to lift long-standing limits on firearms.
Last year, Congress passed a law authorizing visitors to carry guns — both concealed and carried openly — in national parks. Congress passed the law after a federal judge overturned similar regulations enacted in the final days of the Bush administration.

But the new law, which takes effect later this month, does allow states to establish specific rules governing where and how firearms can be carried in the national park system. That law generally prohibits firearms within park boundaries but allows visitors to carry unloaded guns through the park as long as the firearms have been dismantled or rendered inaccessible.
This really keeps the status quo for rules that have been in effect since 1982,” said House Speaker Hannah Pingree, D-North Haven. Pingree, whose district includes parts of Acadia, said now is not the time to change a law that could affect the tourism industry.
“It is important to the tourism industry, and it is important to families for people to feel safe, and I think to set a standard any different than what is currently in place in our state parks and national parks would be a bad precedent,” she said.


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What it does is to gut and override the Federal law.

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