[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1587-1588]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  SUCCESS FOR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, this week Arizonans are 
celebrating our latest success in the fight to preserve our second 
amendment rights.
  Yesterday, a new law took effect allowing law-abiding citizens to 
bring guns into national parks and wildlife refuges. I was proud to 
join members from both parties to pass this law which ensures we can 
now move freely throughout State and Federal land with our firearms.
  Greater Arizona is home to the most beautiful sites in the country, 
including thousands of miles of parkland. National parks are not just 
places we

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visit on vacation. We live and work in and around them. It was 
unacceptable to leave our rights behind each time we left home.
  Now folks can become confident that their freedoms are protected 
wherever they travel in Arizona. I look forward to working with my 
colleagues to continue fighting to protect our constitutional right to 
bear and keep arms with measures like this.

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