Hi Everyone:

After my signature, here is the info from the latest NARP Hotline #534.

Other information about this has also been posted on trainorders.com and on the Yahoo All_Aboard Group.

FYI.

---"Ken" Ruben---



[www.narprail.org]

In one of the stranger developments of the week, President Barack
Obama signed a bill sent to him by Congress requiring Amtrak to
provide a report on implementing a plan to allow guns aboard trains by
locking passengers in boxes for the duration of the trip.

The provision of the FY2010 budget originally required Amtrak to look
at taking firearms as checked luggage, providing the gun was in a
locked case. A clerical error, however, morphed the language into
requiring the passengers be locked up, and the President signed it
before the mistake was discovered.

These clerical errors are relatively rare, but not unheard of. It is
easily correctable, but with a Congress that has ground to in attempts
to health care and climate change legislation, it is unclear how
quickly the error will be fixed.