Utah: Multiple Gun Control Bills Introduced During First Week of 2020 Session

[Elderberry]

NRA-ILA 2/4/2020

The Utah Legislature began its 2020 legislative session last Monday, and anti-gun lawmakers are already introducing numerous gun control bills.  It is important that gun owners and sportsmen across Utah stay actively involved in these issues throughout 2020.

Multiple gun control measures have already been introduced and your legislators need to hear from you!

House Bill 109 bans most firearm sales and transfers between private individuals without first paying fees and obtaining government permission.  Firearm sales between friends or neighbors would not be exempted.  This proposal would have no impact on crime and is completely unenforceable.

House Bill 115 defines “firearm custodian” and makes them liable for the illegal actions of others.  This measure could make law-abiding gun owners liable if their firearms were stolen and then used in a crime, shifting the responsibility from criminals to law-abiding individuals.

House Bill 136 creates a blanket requirement that all firearms be locked and stored in a manner where an unauthorized or prohibited person would be unable to access them.  Gun safety and storage is a matter of personal responsibility and every person’s situation is different.  It is unreasonable for the law to impose a one-size-fits-all solution.  In short, this measure invades people’s homes and forces them to render their firearms useless for self-defense or become criminals.

House Bill 229 is an extreme "red flag" gun confiscation measure that authorizes the seizure of firearms and ammunition from individuals without sufficient due process.  Anti-gun lawmakers have introduced this measure to damage the Second Amendment rights of Utahans.  Bills similar to this one have been introduced in a number of other states, wholly supported by gun control organizations and the lawmakers they have invested in.

More: https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200204/utah-multiple-gun-control-bills-introduced-during-first-week-of-2020-session

[txradioguy]

When did Utah decide to go full Virginia?

[Smokin Joe]

When did Utah decide to go full Virginia?

Must be a lot of Bloomberg money sloshing around over there. This nonsense reads like his bullet points.

[Fishrrman]

Geez.
First, Romney.
Then, gun control.

What's wrong with Utah?
At the rate they're goin', how long before the place turns purple, then blue...?

[libertybele]

Another state where the are going to try to implement red flag laws.  There are now 17 states + D.C. that have some type of red flag law.  This is how the DEMS are going to enact red flag laws and impose gun confiscation and infringe on the 2A-- state by state.  There won't be a need for them to be enacted at the Federal level. Imposing these laws at the state level puts the 2A in even greater peril....with no due process, which is infringing on other rights. 

Utahns rally against gun control legislation

https://www.deseret.com/2020/2/8/21128762/utahns-rally-against-gun-control-legislation

[libertybele]

Geez.
First, Romney.
Then, gun control.

What's wrong with Utah?
At the rate they're goin', how long before the place turns purple, then blue...?

With the demographics rapidly changing in most states this IS how the DEMS will regain control.

[Smokin Joe]

Another state where the are going to try to implement red flag laws.  There are now 17 states + D.C. that have some type of red flag law.  This is how the DEMS are going to enact red flag laws and impose gun confiscation and infringe on the 2A-- state by state.  There won't be a need for them to be enacted at the Federal level. Imposing these laws at the state level puts the 2A in even greater peril....with no due process, which is infringing on other rights. 

Utahns rally against gun control legislation

https://www.deseret.com/2020/2/8/21128762/utahns-rally-against-gun-control-legislation

It will take a serious SCOTUS challenge to stop this. Otherwise, this will be more hot than SWATting, imposed by a few on those they know own guns.
With the threshold for "feeling threatened" immeasurably low in some instances, mere knowledge that one has firearms, a NRA sticker in the pickup window, any number of things could bring crap down on someone.
 In the meantime, gun owners' organizations should be seeking injunctions against these laws all over.
This smells like more Bloomberg money floating around.

[skeeter]

With the demographics rapidly changing in most states this IS how the DEMS will regain control.

Did anyone really think rats fight so hard against any kind of immigration restrictions because of America's welcoming values?

[roamer_1]

NRA-ILA 2/4/2020

The Utah Legislature began its 2020 legislative session last Monday, and anti-gun lawmakers are already introducing numerous gun control bills.  It is important that gun owners and sportsmen across Utah stay actively involved in these issues throughout 2020.

pshaw... Never gonna happen.

[ArneFufkin]

It will take a serious SCOTUS challenge to stop this. Otherwise, this will be more hot than SWATting, imposed by a few on those they know own guns.
With the threshold for "feeling threatened" immeasurably low in some instances, mere knowledge that one has firearms, a NRA sticker in the pickup window, any number of things could bring crap down on someone.
 In the meantime, gun owners' organizations should be seeking injunctions against these laws all over.
This smells like more Bloomberg money floating around.

Bloomberg and the gun grabbers trying to set up Maoist "Cultural Revolution" society:  Neighbors reporting neighbors to the "authorities".

[libertybele]

pshaw... Never gonna happen.

It happened in Florida because of our idiot supposed GOP governor at the time, Rick Scott (now senator) with an estimated 2,000,000 concealed weapon permits.

Here is a list of the 17 states with red flag laws:

There are currently 17 states and the District of Columbia with red flag laws. They include the following:

    California
    Colorado (goes into effect on January 1, 2020)
    Connecticut — The first state to adopt a red flag law, Connecticut adopted the law in 1999. A state’s attorney or any two police officers may file a complaint.
    Delaware
    Florida
    Hawaii (goes into effect on January 1, 2020) — In addition to law enforcement and family or household members, medical professionals, educators or colleagues may file a petition.
    Illinois
    Indiana
    Maryland — In addition to law enforcement and family or household members, medical professionals are allowed to file petitions.
    Massachusetts
    Nevada (goes into effect on January 1, 2020)
    New Jersey
    New York — In addition to law enforcement and family or household members, school administrators or their designees may file a petition.
    Oregon
    Rhode Island
    Vermont
    Washington

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/red-flag-laws-what-are-they-and-which-states-have-them/

[roamer_1]

It happened in Florida because of our idiot supposed GOP governor at the time, Rick Scott (now senator) with an estimated 2,000,000 concealed weapon permits.

Yeah, whatever. Not Utah. Never gonna happen. Nor WY, ID, or MT either. Nor AK.

[EdinVA]

It happened in Florida because of our idiot supposed GOP governor at the time, Rick Scott (now senator) with an estimated 2,000,000 concealed weapon permits.

Here is a list of the 17 states with red flag laws:

There are currently 17 states and the District of Columbia with red flag laws. They include the following:

    California
    Colorado (goes into effect on January 1, 2020)
    Connecticut — The first state to adopt a red flag law, Connecticut adopted the law in 1999. A state’s attorney or any two police officers may file a complaint.
    Delaware
    Florida
    Hawaii (goes into effect on January 1, 2020) — In addition to law enforcement and family or household members, medical professionals, educators or colleagues may file a petition.
    Illinois
    Indiana
    Maryland — In addition to law enforcement and family or household members, medical professionals are allowed to file petitions.
    Massachusetts
    Nevada (goes into effect on January 1, 2020)
    New Jersey
    New York — In addition to law enforcement and family or household members, school administrators or their designees may file a petition.
    Oregon
    Rhode Island
    Vermont
    Washington

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/red-flag-laws-what-are-they-and-which-states-have-them/

Unfortunately we need to add Virginia to the list.

[txradioguy]

Yeah, whatever. Not Utah. Never gonna happen. Nor WY, ID, or MT either. Nor AK.

Hopefully we can fight it off in Kentucky too.  In addition to the new Progressive Governor giving felons the right to vote...the Dem minority in the State House are trying to push for Red Flag laws.

[roamer_1]

Hopefully we can fight it off in Kentucky too.  In addition to the new Progressive Governor giving felons the right to vote...the Dem minority in the State House are trying to push for Red Flag laws.

Easier to do down there (not to say y'all are gonna be easy)... Whether they get it done or not. My brother is down there, so I get an earful.

Different in the rockies where subsistence off the land is real... Where we still have other than two legged predators to deal with... And where there are already more guns per square inch than anywhere on the planet. And they ain't varmint guns either.

There ain't a sheriff in his right mind that would try to serve on that.
They want em? They can come and get em.