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We now have the identity of a weekend gunshot victim in Yellowstone National Park — three-year-old Ella Marie Tucker from Pocatello, Idaho — but few other details about the incident.

A child is dead this morning in an incident at Grant Village Campground in Yellowstone National Park after shooting herself with a handgun, according to National Park Service authorities.

So far this summer changes in America's gun laws, allowing legal gun owners to transport weapons in America's National Parks, has had a minimal impact on Yellowstone National Park, according to rangers and Park officials.

The National Park Service has issued the gun rules for Yellowstone National Park in the face of new federal laws scheduled to go into effect Monday, and one thing is clear: you may be able to pack, but you're prohibited from firing based on other anti-poaching laws already on the books. So much for the weekend warriors who think they'll drop a charging bull moose with their little sidearm.

New gun rules are slated to go into effect in America's National Parks beginning Feb. 22, and a group of retired U.S. Park Service employees is warning that the unintended effects of the law may be more than gun advocates anticipate.