Alaska Alright With Allowing Guns in National Parks

The state of Alaska was quick to jump to the tune of President George W. Bush’s decision to allow loaded and concealed weapons in national parks and wildlife refuges.  As a matter of fact, Alaska says that their gun laws have allowed for guns in most of their parks for quite some time.  They think it is nice that the nation is finally catching up to what they have been doing for years.

If you are not aware of the new rules that have recently been enacted concerning national park gun laws, then I can direct you to the latest update found at U.S. Outdoors Today.

We’ve had guns in the ANILCA parks since 1980 with no real troubles,” noted Alaska region spokesman John Quinley. The legislation creating the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, or ANILCA, parks has always allowed for guns to be carried.

This quote is coming from an article in today’s Anchorage Daily News.  The article then goes on to say that there are so many in guns in Alaska, that everyone just thought that this was the norm–that everyone was allowed to carry.

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