Man gets escorted off of NF trail for open carrying rifle and pistol. UPDATE!!

[Fl0und3rz]

Protection from false analogies and non sequitors.

[pianoman9701]

I bet you're smarter than that guy though, and you probably keep it somewhat inconspicuous if you're on a public place that is frequented by people who are intimidated by guns. Seems like common sense to me. 

The woods isn't Starbucks. I have no problem with someone carrying any legal firearm in the woods. I personally would be carrying my .45. But, I would be at a great disadvantage if there were a criminal with a long gun killing people. As fat as I am, it would take a lot of effort for me to finally sneak up close enough to kill him. I would succeed, however. The 2nd isn't about carrying only where you can shoot or where people are most comfortable with it. It's not about hunting. It's about your ability to protect yourself, plain and simple.

[irishevox]

now that i see it was a state park i can understand peoples concern... but still no reason to make a mountian out of a mole hill

[bobcat]

Still comes down to common sense. If you want to have the cops called on you, go ahead and walk around in a state park on a nice summer day, carrying an AR-15. I'd probably just have my Glock in a holster on my belt.

[timberghost72]

We  don't know whether he was even on state or not. The State Park land is very small and surrounded by National Forest and DNR land. By talking to the ranger station it's safe to assume that he was actually on National Forest land by the way it was explained to me. There are many places to break off and shoot legally (I wouldn't though).

[pianoman9701]

It's not a state park, that I can find. It's a state forest, not that it makes any difference to me.

[bobcat]

It's Washington State Parks land, and they call it the Pilchuck State Forest. So it is a state park, just larger than most.


http://www.parks.wa.gov/548/Mount-Pilchuck

[Elkaholic daWg]

Am I the only one that remembers this?   Was up there numerous times since I had friends with relatives that lived at the base of Pilchuck. Did my skiing at Stevens though.

From 1957 to 1980, Washington State Parks administered a ski area here that was run by a concessionaire. The ski area closed in 1980 due to poor annual snow conditions.

Ski area was in the mountains own "rain shadow"

[timberghost72]

Im too young to remember that but the remnant up there are neat. The chair lift concrete anchors and pulley's are still up there along with cables. I'm sure more but that's all I've seen. The pictures of that place are cool too with all the buildings that used to be there. Not much now and would never know it.

[CAMPMEAT]

I've had it. I'm calling the cops on anybody and everybody who wears Birkenstocks. I cannot trust them at all..geeze, they might gang up on me and try to convert me to be a Conservation Northwest supporter.

[billythekidrock]

Why carry a bunch of guns in a place where it is illegal to shoot?

It's beginning to make more sense why people were concerned about this guy.

I agree. A person carrying multiple firearms in a state park should send up some red flags. Might be innocent enough, but it is out of the norm and should at least be investigated.

[grundy53]

Most of that area isn't state park.

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[bobcat]

I only know what I read, 3 square miles is the state park lands. That's a pretty good size area. I assume he had to walk through at least some part of that. 

[Russ McDonald]

So I did some inquiries to someone in the know.  He was carrying a rifle and was within his legal rights to carry openly or concealed.  To his knowledge the trail was never closed nor was anyone escorted off the mountain.

[ballpark]