I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5646 
To protect the second amendment rights of individuals to carry firearms 
and ammunition in units of the National Park System and the National 
Wildlife Refuge System and to require that hunting activities be a land 
use in all management plans for Federal land to the extent that such 
use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for which the Federal 
land is managed. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2008 
Mr. BROUN of Georgia (for himself, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
HENSARLING, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. KING of Iowa, 
Ms. FALLIN, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, 
Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. GOODE, and Mr. GARRETT of New 
Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To protect the second amendment rights of individuals to 
carry firearms and ammunition in units of the National 
Park System and the National Wildlife Refuge System 
and to require that hunting activities be a land use 
in all management plans for Federal land to the extent 
that such use is not clearly incompatible with the pur-
poses for which the Federal land is managed. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting the Second 
Amendment and Hunting Rights on Federal Lands Act 
of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. POSSESSING OR CARRYING FIREARMS AND AMMU-
NITION IN UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK 
SYSTEM AND THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REF-
UGE SYSTEM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The second amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States provides that ‘‘the right of the 
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be in-
fringed’’. 
(2) People in the United States use firearms 
over 2,000,000 times a year for self-defense. 
(3) States that have enacted legislation expand-
ing the rights of residents to use firearms for self- 
defense have witnessed a decrease in firearm-related 
crime. 
(4) As of the date of enactment of this Act, 
Federal regulations generally prohibit persons from 
possessing firearms in units of the National Park 
System and the National Wildlife Refuge System. 
(5) The regulations described in paragraph (4) 
often prevent an individual complying with Federal 
and State laws from exercising such individual’s sec-
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ond amendment rights while in units of the National 
Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge Sys-
tem. 
(6) Laws relating to the transportation and 
possession of firearms in units of the National Park 
System and the National Wildlife Refuge System are 
often different than the laws of the State such units 
of the National Park System or the National Wild-
life Refuge System are located in, entrapping other-
wise law-abiding gun owners while in units of the 
National Park System and the National Wildlife 
Refuge System. 
(7) Federal law should clarify that the second 
amendment rights of an individual in a unit of the 
National Park System or the National Wildlife Ref-
uge System will not be infringed. 
(b) PROTECTING THE RIGHT OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO 
KEEP AND BEAR FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION IN UNITS 
OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM AND THE NATIONAL 
WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM.—No Federal regulation 
shall restrict any individual from possessing or carrying 
a firearm or ammunition if that restriction is based in 
whole or in part upon the fact that the individual is in 
a unit of the National Park System or the National Wild-
life Refuge System. 
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