This is a step in the right direction.

AMen it has been a drawn out processand glad it's finally enacted.This statement will always stay with me."I rather be fined than to spent eternity in a pile of bear scat"

haha well said jerry and alabama. glad this finally passed

I called USFWS and got clarification on this new/change of regulation. Basically the law still forbids the position of Firearms in a Federal Buildings, Court House etc. that hasn’t changed at all. In other words, what they have done is to recognize the State Law of the position of and the carry of a firearm. Nothing has really changed, just recognizes the State Law of Position. This new law does not give you any authorization to discharge of a firearm what so ever with the only exception of Self Defense in according to your State and Local Law period! If your State authorizes you for open carry, use common sense not to be brandishing any firearm to attract unwanted reaction and of course you want to give consideration to those around you not to rattle them of the position of a firearm. The really good news about this, this change now allows Hunters to cross Federally Owned Property by legal means, motorized vehicle or on foot to access land which was previous land locked by surrounding private property, other Federal Land etc. Military installations this does not apply!

For months and months before the election, countless threads on this site bashed Obama as anti gun and oh no he is going to take my guns and oh no we are screwed. Now he allows this legislation to go through, and surprise, nobody gives him praise..... I guess they didn't give much attention to this topic on Fox....

When I called to get clarification for the new change in regulations for USFWS, I wound up calling the Department of Interior in Washington DC. I was both shocked and surprised after about an hour and a half of being passed from here to there and back again the was finally directed to the right place to an individuals who knows exactly what the new regulation in tales. The Gentleman I spoke to was actually excited over the change and expressed He too now has access to areas he couldn’t get to prior to this change. It’s nice he said to have a regulation that is now standard and has common since in all Government Controlled Lands and the possession and carry is now the same as State level. The change in regulation all boils down to common since law at the State level laws and regulation of possession and carry. He did say, don’t be brandishing a firearm. In other words, unless you feel really lonely and desiring to meet new people who don't like you!!!

Amen Mr. Jones and a +1 for you. Took the words right off my keyboard.

Notice the -1 like on JohnR, the idiots can't handle it!

JonR, I gave ya a +1 to correct that bastardly deed!

this just gives the drug dealers and sexual predators one more place where they will have to think twice before making someone a victim. you just never know what you will encounter when you attack someone.

I am amazed that this could happen under the present adminstration. Hopefully other firearms laws will pass in the gunowner's favor. Being a retired law enforcement officer, President Bush signed a bill into law that we can carry a concealed weapon everywhere in the US. I hope that we will get a nationwide right to carry law passed soon so that the average gunowner is allowed to carry nationwide if they have a concealed carry permit from their home state . I think crime would be less. Let's all keep working on our lawmakers.

This should be good news for people traveling to certain National Parks. Every year, several people are amuled/ killed in Glacier every year. It does not make national or even state news. Other than that, Laws do not do much for social control. Most people are going to avoid trouble anyway. A few are going to trample the rights of the rest of despite any laws passed. They are born not caring or otherwise unwilling to mind their own business.