No Appeal of Court Ruling on Guns in Parks.

The Obama administration says it will not appeal a court ruling that prohibits carrying loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges. Last month, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court here struck down the policy allowing guns in parks. She called the rule, issued in the last days of the Bush administration, severely flawed and said officials had failed to evaluate its possible environmental impact, as required. She set a deadline of Monday for the Interior Department to indicate its likely response. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]