First they allow guns in the national park system, now they want to shoot them. The move to allow firearms in national parks was plenty controversial, but now comes a move by Congress even more fractious: Allowing them to be used to kill animals. A bill recently passed the House Natural Resources Committee pushing the expansion of hunting, fishing, and trapping on federal lands, and some properties within the national park system that haven’t specifically outlawed hook and bullet activities could find themselves open to it. Among the best known, most-used are Blue Ridge Parkway, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Gettysburg National Military Park, and Natchez Trace Parkway.

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