Update: VCDL petition effort to carry in National Parks

On Saturday, January 29, OFCC President Jeff Garvas announced that OFCC had recently has recently signed on to a petition effort started by the Virginia Citizens Defense League that calls upon the United States Department of the Interior to lift a ban on bearing arms for self-defense in our vast national park system.

“Today, every National Park in the state of Ohio is off-limits to Ohioans and tourists who are lawfully licensed to carry a firearm for self-defense”, Garvas said in January. “Such vast amounts of public property should never prohibit lawful citizens from defending their lives in a place where counting on law-enforcement to find you quickly, let alone defend your life, is wishful thinking.”

VCDL has published an update on this effort. Please read here the update and take action!