This petition is created in memory of the first National Park Ranger killed while on duty. James Alexander Cary - 31, shot by bootleggers Hot Springs National Park. March 12, 1927. 

The Park Service told me "It will depend on individual state gun laws, visitors will be able to carry concealed and loaded guns into parks."

The National Park Service Mission is to "...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks...which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." National Park Service Organic Act, 16 U.S.C.1.

I hike and blog from Hot Springs National Park nearly every day and am saddened the sanctuary for nature will be broken by the lifting of the ban on guns in our National Parks. My fiance' Rick and I hope that the Obama administration will reinstate the Ban on Guns in National Parks.

Lee Hiller and Rick London

Dear President Obama,
We the undersigned are asking you to protect the safety of our National Park employees by reinstating the Ban on Guns in National Parks.

Please do this  in memory of the first National Park Ranger killed while on duty. James Alexander Cary - 31, shot by bootleggers Hot Springs National Park. March 12, 1927.  The ban has worked, he was also the last Park Ranger killed by gunfire in a National Park.

Sincerely,