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Guns on the Appalachian Trail + Preppers v. Backpackers
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FrugalFannie
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NOPE. maybe ranger stations etc but the rest of it, no.
"Please remember that federal law prohibits firearms in certain park facilities and buildings. These places are marked with signs at public entrances."
not sure exactly what that means.
not sure exactly what that means.
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"Please remember that federal law prohibits firearms in certain park facilities and buildings. These places are marked with signs at public entrances."
not sure exactly what that means.
There's a big difference between a National Park and a National Forest. Faneuil Hall is a National Park. The White Mountain National Forest... is a National Forest.
FrugalFannie
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National Parks now allow carry in accordance with local state law. There are buildings on National Park Lands that prohibit carry but those buildings must have signs. Shelters and Lean to's do NOT have signs prohibiting carry and I would venture it would be quite a legal challenge to get enforceable signage on them anyway."Please remember that federal law prohibits firearms in certain park facilities and buildings. These places are marked with signs at public entrances."
not sure exactly what that means.
KBCraig
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(g) As used in this section:
(1) The term “Federal facility” means a building or part thereof owned or leased by the Federal Government, where Federal employees are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties.
(h) Notice of the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall be posted conspicuously at each public entrance to each Federal facility, and notice of subsection (e) shall be posted conspicuously at each public entrance to each Federal court facility, and no person shall be convicted of an offense under subsection (a) or (e) with respect to a Federal facility if such notice is not so posted at such facility, unless such person had actual notice of subsection (a) or (e), as the case may be.[/i[
AHM
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FTFY.
Not that it necessarily makes a difference.
Closest NP is Acadia, nu?
(Only full-fledged NP I think I've ever been to is Grand Canyon).
FTFY.
The signs would have to be fireproof, for one thing.
I completed the AT in 2000. The next year I bicycled the entire Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive (650 miles and 60,000 feet of elevation gain). What I would not give for that level of fitness again. 
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There was a documentary about what can happen when local yokels roust transients:
MaroonedinMA
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That is exactly right.
A Unity College student and her girlfriend were murdered 25 years ago at a national park. The killer is still unknown.
It’s been a quarter century since Unity College student Laura “Lollie” Winans, 26, and her girlfriend, Julianne “Julie” Williams, 24, were brutally slain at their backcountry campsite in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The women, accompanied by Winans’ golden retriever, Taj, had begun a backpacking trip in the national park on May 19, 1996. They had planned to explore some of the beautiful parts of the Appalachian mountains, with the trip coming after the end of Winans’ school year and before Williams was set to begin a new job in Vermont, on June 1. On May 31, after Williams didn’t come home when she was expected, her father reported the young women missing. Rangers set out to look for them, first finding their car parked near Skyland Lodge, a hotel, and then Taj, who was wandering alone through the woods. The next day, rangers found their bodies at their campsite. They had been bound and gagged, with their throats slashed. Their murders frightened hikers and wilderness enthusiasts, and caused many to call for authorities to investigate them as a hate crime because the victims were lesbians. But despite the enormous investigative, media and community response to the crime, the murders remain unsolved.
bangordailynews.com
It’s been a quarter century since Unity College student Laura “Lollie” Winans, 26, and her girlfriend, Julianne “Julie” Williams, 24, were brutally slain at their backcountry campsite in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The women, accompanied by Winans’ golden retriever, Taj, had begun a backpacking trip in the national park on May 19, 1996. They had planned to explore some of the beautiful parts of the Appalachian mountains, with the trip coming after the end of Winans’ school year and before Williams was set to begin a new job in Vermont, on June 1. On May 31, after Williams didn’t come home when she was expected, her father reported the young women missing. Rangers set out to look for them, first finding their car parked near Skyland Lodge, a hotel, and then Taj, who was wandering alone through the woods. The next day, rangers found their bodies at their campsite. They had been bound and gagged, with their throats slashed. Their murders frightened hikers and wilderness enthusiasts, and caused many to call for authorities to investigate them as a hate crime because the victims were lesbians. But despite the enormous investigative, media and community response to the crime, the murders remain unsolved.
A Unity College student and her girlfriend were murdered 25 years ago at a national park. The killer is still unknown.
It’s been a quarter century since Unity College student Laura “Lollie” Winans, 26, and her girlfriend, Julianne “Julie” Williams, 24, were brutally slain at their backcountry campsite in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
bangordailynews.com
Thirwell1216
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Yep... murder does happen on the trail
www.greenbelly.co
List of Appalachian Trail Murders Since 1974 (Map and Story)
There have been 10 murders on the Appalachian Trail since 1974. Here's the story of each murder along with a map of where they happened. Does it mean the AT is dangerous to hike? Find out in this post. Complete with safety tips for your upcoming hike.
www.greenbelly.co
A guy from Massachusetts is responsible for the 2019 one but was found not guilty due to insanity.Yep... murder does happen on the trail
List of Appalachian Trail Murders Since 1974 (Map and Story)
There have been 10 murders on the Appalachian Trail since 1974. Here's the story of each murder along with a map of where they happened. Does it mean the AT is dangerous to hike? Find out in this post. Complete with safety tips for your upcoming hike.
Not a shotgun but a good instructional video how to accomplish that.
View: https://youtu.be/KUpHiY1njkE
In God We Trust
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Anyone contemplating an AT hike or even interested in the subject should read “A Walk In The Woods” by Bill Bryson. It’s an amazing account of him and his almost equally out of shape buddy doing the trail on a whim one summer in their mid 40’s
In God We Trust
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Oh by the way, how is it that nobody asked what a good gun for hiking the AT would be? Animals don’t worry me much, so I guess I would either go with A small .380 like the LCP or my current EDC the LCR in .357
hillman
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Only one logical choice. Calico M950 9mm.
namedpipes
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SKumar
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That's very respectable. I was thinking how lucky I am to have amazing backpacking technology (freeze dried food, rapid boil stove, tents that pack into nothing, water filtration, GPS, inflatable sleeping pads with pillows, etc.). When you went, you had a heavy backpack, some granola and nuts, drank from streams, slept on rocks. I'm not sure I could replicate what you did, so kudos to you
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namedpipes
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You didn't read the ispoiler tag did youThat's very respectable. I was thinking how lucky I am to have amazing backpacking technology (freeze dried food, rapid boil stove, tents that pack into nothing, water filtration, GPS, inflatable sleeping pads with pillows, etc.). When you went, you had a heavy backpack, some granola and nuts, drank from streams, slept on rocks. I'm not sure I could replicate what you did, so kudos to you
My hope is to actually do the whole thing in a few years, with my son
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I would recommend that a hiker on the Appalachian Trail carry a good, lightweight, folding hunter like the Cold Steel "Voyager" or "Recon 1". In the backpack, carry a good hunting knife with a 4" to 6" blade, such as the Cold Steel "Master Hunter" or "SRK". I would avoid carrying knives that are obviously designed as weapons, such as a Bowie or stiletto.
Depending where you are, don't forget Cape Cod National Seashore or Minuteman National Park.
Minute Man National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
At Minute Man National Historical Park the opening battle of the Revolution is brought to life as visitors explore the battlefields and structures associated with April 19, 1775, and witness the American revolutionary spirit through the writings of the Concord authors.
www.nps.gov
Search for: Is a national seashore a national park?
Why is Cape Cod National Seashore a national park?
The goal, he wrote, was "to preserve the natural and historic values of a portion of Cape Cod for the inspiration and enjoyment of people all over the United States." This was the first time the federal government had created a national park out of land that was primarily in private hands.
I would like to try from Central Mass., going both North and South to the state borders, and eventually the entire New England length of it. This would be over many weekends in small pieces.You didn't read the ispoiler tag did you
My hope is to actually do the whole thing in a few years, with my son
Benchmade Nimravus on a belt sheath.
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Getting arrested and convicted for carrying a handgun in New York without a New York handgun license is a felony with a minimum mandatory 3.5 year prison sentence. Plus, you will lose your 2A rights nation-wide, forever. Think twice!
In God We Trust
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Sounds better than getting chopped up by a looney
fshalor
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Yup. I was guessing she said that in video to save herself some grief.
