Posts Tagged ‘Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence’

Judge Blocks Rule Permitting Concealed Guns In U.S. Parks

March 20, 2009

The usual suspects are back at it using the courts to thwart the liberty of others as well as  undermine the ability of decent people to defend themselves and others. The national Parks, like our schools and colleges, are free fire zones for criminals. But, the Brady Bunch would prefer for you to be bitten by bears or sodomized by social misfits rather than be capable of properly and effectively defending yourself, your family, and other innocent people.

A federal judge yesterday blocked a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush allowing visitors to national parks to carry concealed weapons.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by gun-control advocates and environmental groups. The Justice Department had sought to block the injunction against the controversial rule.

The three groups that brought the suit — the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees — argued that the Bush action violated several laws.

In her ruling, Kollar-Kotelly agreed that the government’s process had been “astoundingly flawed.”

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