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WASHINGTON (AP) - Seven former directors of the National Park Service — including the Bush administration's first park chief — have signed a letter opposing the Interior Department's plan to reconsider regulations restricting loaded guns in national parks.
The former park officials say current regulations requiring that visitors to national parks render their weapons inaccessible were working well and have helped make national parks among the safest places in America.
"These rules, promulgated during the Reagan administration, are essential to park rangers in carrying out their duties of protecting park resources and wildlife, and in assuring the safety of visitors to the parks," the letter said. "In all our years, we experienced very few instances in which this limited regulation created confusion or resistance."
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