
A bill winding its way through the Maine legislature would return Acadia National Park's gun laws to the days before an enterprising senator tacked a provision onto the Obama credit card bill. That provision dictated that guns could be carried in national parks, and anyone with a conceal-and-carry permit would be allowed to carry concealed guns within the parks. The guns in parks bill also allows states to make their own rules, so if this bill(pdf) becomes law in Maine, the only guns allowed in Acadia would be unloaded, broken apart, and stored in car trunks. Now, I don't really care if you're the kind of guy whose dick feels a little bit bigger when you have a .357 strapped to your leg. Hell, I love the way my dick feels whenever I'm blasting a few rounds off, but I get my dick/gun jollies outside of Acadia. Acadia is a relatively small park where parents take their children for forced marches. There aren't any massive backcountry marijuana plantations, and violent crime is non-existent. Not letting people carrying guns means that anyone you see with a gun is likely a poacher, and the gun law took away that probable cause rangers used to rely on.