Rehberg sponsors bill to prohibit gun bans on fed land

Montana's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Denny Rehberg, sponsored a bill Tuesday to ensure that people cannot be banned from carrying guns on land administered by the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management, including areas designated as national monuments.

"There's a large segment of powerful Washington, D.C., elites that thinks the Second Amendment is obsolete and unnecessary," Rehberg, a Republican, said in a press release. "These progressives envision a world where only criminals and agents of the state are armed, and will use every tactic at their disposal...