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3. Big Bend National Park (Texas): Imagine a place on the border where law enforcement is ordered by management to allow illegal aliens into the country, and to avoid the border area entirely if crime is suspected. Such is the story at Big Bend, where the park superintendent has chosen to confront crime by surrendering to it. The park has blatantly violated NPS orders to hire law enforcement staff before hiring other personnel, leaving the few remaining rangers understaffed, unsupported, and overwhelmed. Big Bend is a classic example of a preventable ranger death waiting to happen in the park with the largest boundary with Mexico.

PeteCamp wrote:The only thing I know for sure is they don't have all these legal issues about guns in Mexico. They just carry anyway!

Yeah, but they aren't gringo$

CC Italian - The laws governing Texas State Parks have zero relevance for National parks.
Two sets of laws, state and federal, just like anything else.

We spent a week in BBNP last September, first time. I researched this subject quite a bit beforehand.
I carried concealed everywhere except the park HQ buildings. I kept a discretely-cased long gun (SU16) in my vehicle.
We did some short hikes in some very remote places, and often were the only humans in a fairly large area. It was a bit spooky in places.

I was never certain which NP buildings were off-limits for carry, such as the big restaurant in the same building as the gift shop and lodging check-in. For that matter, was the lodging (our room) off-limits as well? All are federal buildings.

CC Italian wrote: So my point is if the NP follow the rules of the state laws you CAN NOT display a firearm in a Texas state park. Which means you can't display it in a NP in Texas(Big Bend NP) because they follow state laws.

This doesn't make sense to me.
Texas law prohibits open display of firearms in STATE parks. This has no bearing on National parks.
Texas law allows open carry of long guns. National Parks mirror the state law, so NPs in Texas should allow open carry of long guns.