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Proponents of gun rights and individual liberty cheered when, under the Bush administration, the department of the interior dropped a ban on guns in national parks because the change in policy was a recognition that keeping and bearing arms is a right that cannot be taken away through some bureaucratic whim.  Unfortunately, Obama doesn’t respect gun rights or individual liberty and has re-instituted the ban.

Indicating that he has no intention of being a friend to gun owners as he promised on the campaign trail.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday blocked a federal rule allowing people to carry concealed, loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly halts a change in regulations issued in the waning days of the Bush administration and orders further review. She set an April 20 deadline for the Interior Department to review the rule and indicate its course of action in response to the injunction.

The rule, which took effect Jan. 11, allowed visitors to carry a loaded gun into a park or wildlife refuge as long as the person had a permit for a concealed weapon and the state where the park or refuge was located allowed concealed firearms. Previously, guns in parks had been severely restricted.

The Obama administration had said it was reviewing the Bush rule but had defended it in court.

Kendra Barkoff, a spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, said Thursday the department is reviewing the injunction.

“Reviewing the injunction” is, of course, code for “placing it in bureaucratic purgatory from which it will probably never emerge under the Obama administration.”

Which is how the gun control nuts operate.  They know that keeping and bearing arms is a right.  They know that the Supreme Court has upheld it as a right.  So all they can do is try to make it as hard as possible to exercise that right through a million ticky-tacky regulations and restrictions.

Because they have no respect for freedom.