Never hike alone: hike with a slow runner - that way if you're attacked you don't have to outrun your assailant, just your hiking buddy.
Don’t leave your street sense at home (or your gun).
Be careful in parking lots, roads & on lonely hiking trails in the middle of nowhere.
Hike during the day, sleep at night (with your gun).
Pick trails with a lot of traffic.
Do homework before you go. Ask a park ranger or an outdoors store employee about your hiking or camping destinations, then be sure to carry your gun regardless. If you knew you were hiking into trouble, you obviously would not hike there. Better to be safe than sorry.
5 to 10 pounds? My handgun weighs less than a pound empty, and only about 1.5 Lbs fully loaded. My gun is not even a small gun typically used for concealed carry which would weigh even less. A 5 to 10 Lb range is completely ridiculous.
Dawson Wheeler, owner of Rock/Creek Outfitters in Chattanooga, appears to know very little about handguns, not to mention that folks who conceal carry typically carry the gun on their person, not buried in a back pack. He is free to remain unarmed. This rule change is not about forcing people to carry guns. Instead, it is about removing current regulations that force the law abiding to be unarmed, making them easy targets hundreds of times every year for rapists, muggers, and other low-life criminals that like to prey on the unarmed in National Parks.
Chattanooga: Hikers packing concealed heat
Corrected Safety tips: TIPS ON WOODS SAFETY
Never hike alone: hike with a slow runner - that way if you're attacked you don't have to outrun your assailant, just your hiking buddy.
Don’t leave your street sense at home (or your gun).
Be careful in parking lots, roads & on lonely hiking trails in the middle of nowhere.
Hike during the day, sleep at night (with your gun).
Pick trails with a lot of traffic.
Do homework before you go. Ask a park ranger or an outdoors store employee about your hiking or camping destinations, then be sure to carry your gun regardless. If you knew you were hiking into trouble, you obviously would not hike there. Better to be safe than sorry.
Chattanooga: Hikers packing concealed heat
5 to 10 pounds? My handgun weighs less than a pound empty, and only about 1.5 Lbs fully loaded. My gun is not even a small gun typically used for concealed carry which would weigh even less. A 5 to 10 Lb range is completely ridiculous.
Dawson Wheeler, owner of Rock/Creek Outfitters in Chattanooga, appears to know very little about handguns, not to mention that folks who conceal carry typically carry the gun on their person, not buried in a back pack. He is free to remain unarmed. This rule change is not about forcing people to carry guns. Instead, it is about removing current regulations that force the law abiding to be unarmed, making them easy targets hundreds of times every year for rapists, muggers, and other low-life criminals that like to prey on the unarmed in National Parks.