On Friday May 22nd, President Obama signed the Credit Card Holder Bill of Rights.  This bill contained a provision allowing individuals to lawfully carry their concealed firearms on National Parks and Refuges if the state in which the park or refuge is located allows for concealed carry.

SCI has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of new rules that allow people to carry concealed and loaded firearms on hundreds of millions of acres of National Park Service and Wildlife Refuge lands in accordance with the relevant state law.  The rule change went into effect on January 9, 2009. Previously, firearms carried in these Federal lands had to be unloaded, inoperable, and inaccessible (with some exceptions, e.g., while legally hunting).