[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13843]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         GUNS IN NATIONAL PARKS

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, just before we went into the last 
recess, we passed much-needed, overdue legislation relating to credit 
card abuse. That was a good, responsible thing to do. But in the 
process of doing that, this Congress did something that was grossly 
irresponsible. We passed legislation enabling anyone who wants to to 
bring a loaded, concealed firearm onto national parks, so that the 
hundreds of thousands of American families who would like to enjoy our 
parks safe in the knowledge that their families are secure from the 
threat of wanton violence can no longer have that sense of security.
  A particularly egregious case in point is the Wolf Trap Center for 
the Performing Arts, a national treasure. Any number of performing 
artists are now informing Wolf Trap that they do not want to go to Wolf 
Trap because their lives are endangered by this legislation.
  It's time to fix this legislation, provide for the security of the 
American people, and not the profit of the National Rifle Association.

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