Originally Posted By: MDinana
Originally Posted By: Dagny


The law governing possession of firearms inside a national park changed on February 22, 2010.

Visitors may possess firearms within a national park unit provided they comply with federal, state, and local laws.


OK, but who is going to be enforcing that law? I may be mistaken (and please correct me if I am), but I would assume that park rangers have no non-federal authority. The state police and local folks jurisdiction ends when you cross into federal land. If I'm technically breaking state law, do NP police have the jurisdiction (and education on that state's laws) to enforce it? Can state/local officers be "asked" by NP to come in and enforce their jurisdiction on federal land?

I'm not advocating doing this, I'm just curious how the different jurisdictions get along.


I don't have the statute or implementing regs in front of me but if it says that the park's firearm policy mirrors the federal and surrounding state-local statutes then I'd expect they could enforce it.

Would they ignore expired vehicle tags?

I wouldn't count on it.