Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg, Utah’s Rob Bishop and Georgia’s Paul Broun have introduced the Firearms Freedom on Federal Lands Act. The proposed legislation is designed to appeal to their gun-clinging voter base. I mean, “prevent the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior from issuing or enforcing any regulation or executive order, including presidential declarations authorized under the Antiquities Act, that prohibit an individual from possessing a firearm on lands managed by the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management (BLM).” Hang on; didn’t the feds just authorize firearms in America’s national parks? Why do we need this, then?
