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WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The ACSL and FOAC are both signed onto the effort
to modify the policy in National Parks to permit the carrying of
firearms by lawfully licensed individuals. The National Park Service
has apparently taken it upon itself to establish policy were no
authority exists and has rejected our petition on this matter.

The message below is from our friends at the VCDL and Firearms
Coalition. Please try to help if you can. The life you save may be
your own!

Thank you!

Gun-Voters,
The following is an alert from our friends at Virginia Citizens'
Defense League regarding firearms in National Parks. As we have
reported, the Park Service has a regulation forbidding the possession
of "...any weapon, trap, or net..." in any unit of the National Park
Service (with some exceptions in Alaska). VCDL filed a "Petition for
Rule Making" to force the NPS to change their policy regarding personal
protection firearms. The NPS recently rejected that petition based on
four points:
Parks are safe places; "Right to carry" laws don't reduce crime;
Firearms can legally be transported through parks (unloaded,
disassembled, and locked in the trunk); and "Right to carry" laws do
not protect visitors from wildlife. They gave no supporting evidence
for these contentions just more unsupported contentions.
I have made some minor changes to the VCDL call to action and encourage
everyone to take immediate action on this issue.
We need to ZUMBO the National Park Service.

Yours for the Second Amendment,

Jeff Knox

**URGENT** **URGENT** **URGENT**

VCDL has just learned from our sources on Capitol Hill that the
Department of the Interior (DOI) is **livid** over the National Park
Service's (NPS) asinine rejection letter sent to VCDL concerning VCDL's
Petition for Rule Making!

(http://www.vcdl.org/pdf/NPS_Denial_of_VCDL_PRM.pdf)

That petition would apply state and local laws regarding firearms carry
to National Parks within their borders so anyone legally carrying in
the state could also legally carry in the park.

Apparently the National Park Service DID NOT CLEAR that rejection
letter with their parent - the Department of the Interior!

The Department of Interior had been telling VCDL and key Congressional
members that DOI would seriously consider VCDL's petition.

The ensuing NPS rejection letter made DOI look like fools and liars.
DOI doesn't like that at all, and I don't blame them.

The word that I am hearing is that the Department of the Interior is
investigating how to OVERTURN that rejection letter and soon!!!

We have an incredible opportunity to save TWO years of work and pull
off a victory for all gun owners! But we must make our voices heard
LOUD AND CLEAR.

I need all of you to do the following FOUR things NOW and URGENTLY no
matter where you live, as this this is a NATIONAL effort:

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1. CALL the DOI Legislative Affairs and leave a message for the
Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne.

Say something like this:

"I encourage Secretary Kempthorne to implement the Virginia Citizens
Defense League's Petition for Rule Making that the National Park
Service has rejected out-of-hand. Law-abiding citizens should not be
forced to disarm just because they choose to visit a National Park."

PLEASE MAKE THAT CALL - WE WANT DOI'S TELEPHONE LINE LIT UP BIG TIME!

Mr. Kempthorne's telephone number in Washington, DC is: 202-208-7351

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2. Call your U.S. Senators and Congressman. Their names, phone numbers
and email addresses can be found by clicking here and entering your zip
and
address:

http://capwiz.com/nra/officials/congress

Say something like this:

"Please have the Senator [Congressman] contact the Department of the
Interior's Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, and ask him to overturn the
National Park Service's rejection of the Virginia Citizens Defense
League's Petition for Rule Making. Law-abiding citizens in compliance
with state and local laws should not be forced to disarm in order to
visit a National Park!"

PLEASE MAKE THAT CALL - WE WANT CONGRESS' TELEPHONE LINES TO LIGHT UP
AS BRIGHTLY AS DOI'S!

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3. After calling your Senators and Congressman, follow up with an
email.

Here is a sample email you can use:

Please ask the Department of the Interior's Secretary, Dirk Kempthorne,
to overturn the National Park Service's arbitrary rejection of the
Virginia Citizens Defense League's Petition for Rule Making and to
implement that petition!

VCDL's Petition for Rule Making, representing over ONE MILLION gun
owners, would stop the Park Service practice of disarming law-abiding
citizens who choose to carry a handgun for self-defense, even though
these citizens are in compliance with all applicable state and local
laws.

The National Park Service's rejection letter was not only asinine, but
was completely unfounded and condescending towards America's gun
owners.

My family members and I are given but one life each. I ask that you
make sure that I can defend those lives while visiting a National Park!

Please let me know what you are going to do.

(Be sure to include contact information)

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4. After calling and leaving a message for DOI, follow up with an email
to Secretary Kempthorne:

Email address:

exsec@ios.doi.gov

Suggested email subject:

Please approve VCDL's Petition for Rule Making!

Suggested email text:

Dear Secretary Kempthorne,

I ask that you approve and implement the Virginia Citizens Defense
League's
(VCDL) Petition for Rule Making that would preclude the National Park
Service from restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to carry a
handgun for self-defense while in a National Park.
Citizens legally carrying self defense firearms in accordance with
state and local laws should not be forced to disarm just because they
choose to visit or pass through a unit of the National Park Service.

The National Park Service sent a rejection letter to VCDL listing four
unsubstantiated reasons for the rejection. None of the reasons listed
legitimately justifies denying a person the right to defend the only
life they have been given.

The Petition, representing over ONE MILLION gun owners, and the
rejection was capricious and unjustified.

Please let me know what the Department of the Interior is going to do
regarding this matter.

Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
[YOUR ADDRESS]

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OK, ladies and gentlemen - let's ROLL!

Please spread this alert far and wide! We need gun owners from all
over the country to make this happen!

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VA-ALERT is a project of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc.
(VCDL).
VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization
dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The
membership considers the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to be an essential
human right.

VCDL web page: http://www.vcdl.org
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