Posted on 02/24/2006 10:24:31 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
Senate committee advances weakened loaded weapons bill
By The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah residents would be allowed to keep a loaded firearm at home without a concealed weapons permit under a bill endorsed by a Senate committee Tuesday.
Currently, keeping a loaded gun in a home without such a permit is a misdemeanor violation of state law.
The bill by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Lehi, is a watered-down version of an earlier bill that would have allowed anyone 18 and older to carry a loaded weapon in their vehicle without having a concealed weapons permit. In Utah, only those 21 and older can obtain a concealed weapons permit.
But after that original bill faced stiff opposition from law enforcement and numerous senators, Madsen agreed to take that provision out. However, the bill does eliminate what Madsen and numerous gun groups have said is a confusing contradiction that allows a gun in a vehicle to be stored in a secured case on the front seat of a car but not a locked glove compartment. Storing a weapon in a vehicle's console or glove compartment would be legal without a concealed weapons permit under Madsen's bill.
Senate Bill 24 passed in the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee 8-0 and now heads to the full Senate for debate.
Why is it these pols are so afraid to stand up to the LEO lobby?
If it were up to the FOP, PBA, and the NAoPC, the Second Amendment would be repealed.
"Currently, keeping a loaded gun in a home without such a permit is a misdemeanor violation of state law."
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I find this obnoxious.
Me too. Am I to assume that a resident of Utah is violating the law if they have a loaded pistol in the nightstand? Freakin' unreal. Where the hell did the gun rights go? How the hell did it become illeagal to have a loaded gun in your own home?
And unconstitutional..
Wait till they make it a felony. The way the laws change it is just a matter of time.
The article is not correct, according to my source, "Utah Gun Law II" by Mitch Vilos, a Utah gun law expert. He cites U.C.A. 76-10-500(1) as specifically allowing a loaded gun to be kept in the home or temporary residence, or camp. You might want to check the Utah Lagislature web site for the text of the law.
I do believe I smell a Troll!
What is your source, troll?
Unfortunately, "reasonable gun control" to you people means that all mine are confiscated while you and your liberal friends keep theirs.
Include Russia and Brazil in that list. Their stats would be 4x the number in this country.
What kind of a leftwit troll moron assumes that the differences in gun deaths are attributable entirely to differences in laws?
Why don't you apply your silly reasoning to states, and see whether the urban leftist states with strict gun control are really safer than the polite states where we carry guns freely?
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