The Brady group was successful in block Pres. Bush's bill to allow carrying guns in Federal Parks. So when the Credit Card Bill came up, we slipped in the bill again (as an attachment) and made it better...and it PASSED. -------- The Bush Administration rule required among other things that: The gun owner have a concealed carry license. The gun owner carry a handgun concealed. The state in which the park was located had to allow carry in state parks. (Not 100% sure about this). The Brady Campaign sued and successfully blocked this in the federal courts. Coburn’s amendment goes much further: 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. Thus Arizonans without a license can now carry any firearm openly in their national parks and Texans can now carry rifles and shotguns openly (and handguns in their cars without a license) in their national parks since those activities are in compliance with the law outside the Park. ---------------