CC Italian wrote:
Yes, they can. I know it stinks, I think it falls under the law code title 36 of national parks and department of Interior. I have gone to several federal parks out west (Colorado, Wyoming etc) and they can put restrictions on where you can carry in a federal park if they "deem" it a safety issue etc etc. The perfect example is http://www.nps.gov/cave/parkmgmt/lawsandpolicies.htm Carlsbad Caverns. You can't really take it anywhere if you read it closely. Also, other national parks have the superintendents compendium if the choose. I forgot the park but one in Colorado would not let me carry bear mace while another federal park in Colorado would. If said federal parks superintendents say you can't then it is a no go. I even called two national parks and talked to two head federal LEO rangers at both parks and they said basically there is a law written in that allows the superintendent to restrict what they "deem" is a safety issue and that I need to check each federal park for compendiums.
Title 36 is specifically addressed in the law, and the law specifically says that it supersedes title 36.
You can click here to read the whole text.
http://www.nps.gov/cuva/parkmgmt/upload ... 202009.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(b) PROTECTING THE RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS TO BEAR ARMS
IN UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM AND THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE
REFUGE SYSTEM.—The Secretary of the Interior shall not
promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual
from possessing a firearm including an assembled or functional
firearm in any unit of the National Park System or the National
Wildlife Refuge System if—
(1) the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from
possessing the firearm; and
(2) the possession of the firearm is in compliance with
the law of the State in which the unit of the National Park
System or the National Wildlife Refuge System is located.
Also here is a memo that was sent out around the time this was enacted...
http://www.nps.gov/legal/ActivationMemo ... ession.PDF" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
So much confusion at the Federal Level with what should be a simple issue.