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MotherBear,

First off, I don't know the answer regarding your gun question.

However, I've been a camp host and believe me it isn't for everyone. I did it as an experience I wanted to have as my wife and I were very strongly thinking about becoming full time RVers when we retired and doing the camp host thing all over the country. However, I didn't want to assume I'd like it and then find it wasn't for me. As I retired before my wife, I had the opportunity to try it before fully committing. So I did at two different Texas State Parks.

As a camp host ask yourself, will you be able to tolerate: Being woken up in the middle of the night because a park visitor ran out salt and expected you to supply some?

Or wanted you to resolve disputes between campers? Again, late at night.

Or demanded you break a ten dollar bill into coins so they could get a cokes and snacks at the vending machines - at midnight.

I could go one with many other unexpected situations I found not to my taste and finally abandoned the idea of camp hosting.

So, I then tried a variation as a resident volunteer at a National Wildlife Refuge. Here too they supply a trailer site, complete with electrics and sewerage. No host duties. What do you have to do in return? Put in 32 hours a week either doing manual labor or working in the office. Just like a regular job. I did trail maintenance for four months and finally realized I was working for a significantly small return. In addition, I was dismayed to find the vast majority of my fellow volunteers had no interest in wildlife (I'm an avid birder) and were only volunteers for the ahem "free site". Also, if you volunteer as a couple, 'both' of you put in 32 hours a week. Such a deal!

Paying for an RV commercial trailer site is the way to go. The sites are fully equipped with everything you need at a very reasonable cost. Your time is your own to do with as you please and you can rub elbows with folks who have an active interest in wildlife.