Gun Rights Advocates Find Unlikely Ally In House Of Representatives
Gun Rights Advocates Find Unlikely Ally In House Of Representatives as the Democratic controlled House of Representatives, when lawmakers passed a measure allowing concealed, loaded firearms to be carried in national parks.
The House approved a measure Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, to allow concealed firearms in national parks. The proposal passed 279 to 147, winning overwhelming Republican support and that of a significant number of more conservative rural and western Democrats.
Gun Rights Advocates Find Unlikely Ally In House Of Representatives and under the new measure, any person with a state permit to carry a concealed weapon would be able to bring that weapon into parks and wildlife refuges. This rules holds unless a state law specifies otherwise.
The Senate voted 67 to 29 on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, to attach an identical measure to a bill that cracks down on credit card fees. The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, was among 27 Democrats backing the measure.
The firearms language is now expected to be included in the final version of the credit card legislation, which lawmakers want to deliver to American President Obama’s desk by Memorial Day Weekend.
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Now I would be afraid to go into public parks because you have no idea might be carrying a gun and that is scarey and that is a fact.
MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO GO TO PUBLIC PARKS NOW AND FOR ALL TIME AS I AM SURE HE WILL!!!