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Yes, you can carry a gun in Yellowstone.
The bad news is:
But it’s illegal to fire it – even in self defense.
Just think, the people who enacted and enforce that edict all swore an oath to the Constitution. I wonder what the Framers would have thought about that.
Being charged with discharging a firearm in self defense? It’s still better than being bear poop.
Keep in mind, Yellowstone is in California.
They couldn’t keep guns out, due to SCOTUS ruling.
But they could make it illegal to fire them… so they did.
AFAIK, this rule does not exist anywhere in the National Park system outside CA.
Ummm
Yellowstone is NOT in Californication, rather it’s in Wyoming, Montana & Idaho.
It’s the federal regs promulgated under 18 CFR & 36 CFR that control carrying.
It’s illegal to kill person anywhere in the US. Yet if you can establish that the conditions for self defense applied, it is justified. So in what way can the government reclassify a just action as unjustified? This would seem to be unconstitutional. Has such a case ever occurred, resulting in a conviction?