Utah Concealed Firearms & Training

UTAH 2018 LEGISLATIVE – FINAL – MARCH 19, 2018

H.B. 312 — Rep. Lisonbee
CONCEALED CARRY AMENDMENTS — DID NOT PASS

This bill:
▸     provides that a provisional concealed carry permit holder may, before age 21, apply for a concealed carry permit that becomes valid at age 21; and
▸     makes technical changes.
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H.B. 328 — Rep. Thurston
WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS AMENDMENTS — DID NOT PASS

This bill:
▸     eliminates the prohibition of carrying a dangerous weapon while a person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit under certain circumstances; and
▸     provides an exception if a person uses a dangerous weapon in the person’s residence
or in defense of others and the person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit.

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H.B. 102S01 — Rep. Greene
USE OF FORCE AMENDMENTS (SELF DEFENSE AMENDMENT) — BILL HAS BEEN PASSED AND JUST WAITING FOR GOVERNORS SIGNATURE

This bill modifies criminal provisions related to use of force.
▸     addresses when a person is not justified in using force; and
▸     makes technical changes.

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H.B. 129 — Rep. Maloy and Hinkin
SELF-DEFENSE AMENDMENT — DID NOT PASS

This bill clarifies that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor.
This bill:
▸     provides that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor even if there  is a safe place to which the individual can retreat;
▸     provides that an individual’s failure to retreat is not relevant when determining whether the individual acted reasonably; and makes technical changes.

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S.B. 210 — Sen. Dabakis, Jim
INTOXICATED DRIVING LIMIT CHANGES — DID NOT PASS

This bill modifies the effective date on a statutory change of the blood alcohol limit for driving under the influence.

This bill:
▸     modifies the uncodified effective date of a change in the blood alcohol level for driving under the influence, making it contingent on three other states passing laws with the same blood alcohol level; and
▸     if three other states have not passed laws with the same blood alcohol level, provides for the repeal of Laws of Utah 2017, Chapter 283.

TRUMP’S ORDER TO BAN BUMP STOCKS

Donald Trump ordered US attorney general Jeff Sessions to “propose regulations to ban all devices to turn legal weapons into machine guns” today. He was referring to bump stock devices.

Trump’s statement comes amid rising calls for gun control in the US, after 17 students were killed last week in Parkland, Florida by a former classmate armed with a semi-automatic weapon. But the change Trump is proposing wouldn’t have had any impact on the Florida shooting, which didn’t involve a bump stock.

More broadly, the Department of Justice can’t just ban such devices, its own officials have said in recent months.

Trump laid the responsibility today directly on Sessions during a press conference in the White House. “I expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, Jeff, very soon,” Trump said, speaking to the attorney general:

The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has been reviewing whether adding a bumpstock makes a gun a “machine gun” since last December, after a gunman armed with multiple weapons outfitted with bumpstocks killed 58 people and injured over 800 in Las Vegas. Fully automatic weapons, or machine guns, are illegal in the US, but semiautomatic weapons like the AR-15 used in the Florida shooting are not.

“We will go through the regulatory process that is required by law and we will be attentive to input from the public,” Sessions said at the time. Of the over 36,000 public comments the ATF got on the proposal, 85% were against reclassifying bumpstock-modified weapons as “machine guns,” The Trace found.

Since then, DOJ and ATF officials have said publicly and privately that banning bump stocks could not be achieved unilaterally. They argue that Congress needs to pass legislation in order to reclassify bumpstocks in the US, the New York Times reported (paywall). The ATF “could not find a way to classify it as a machine gun,” in 2010, a former official told The Trace.

After a mass shooting in Las Vegas last year, a bill to ban bumpstocks was re-introduced in October. However, this stalled after speaker of the House Paul Ryan said the ATF, not Congress, should be responsible for the issue. It’s unclear whether Trump’s support for the idea would be enough to get legislation passed in Congress this time around.

Meanwhile, Florida state legislators today voted down a bill that would ban assault rifles, as students from the Parkland high school looked on.

 

UTAH 2018 LEGISLATIVE ACTION LIST – FEB. 21, 2018

H.B. 312 — Rep. Lisonbee
CONCEALED CARRY AMENDMENTS — Status: 2/13 – Passed Favorably by House Rules Committee– 3rd Reading in House — NO CHANGE

Audio from House Judiciary Committee HERE

This bill:
▸     provides that a provisional concealed carry permit holder may, before age 21, apply for a concealed carry permit that becomes valid at age 21; and
▸     makes technical changes.
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H.B. 328 — Rep. Thurston
WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS AMENDMENTS — STATUS: 2/15 -House Committee – Not Considered – NO CHANGE

This bill:
▸     eliminates the prohibition of carrying a dangerous weapon while a person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit under certain circumstances; and
▸     provides an exception if a person uses a dangerous weapon in the person’s residence
or in defense of others and the person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit.

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H.B. 102S01 — Rep. Greene
USE OF FORCE AMENDMENTS (SELF DEFENSE AMENDMENT) — STATUS: 2/19 – Senate – BILL HAS BEEN PASSED AND JUST WAITING FOR GOVERNORS SIGNATURE

Audio from Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee HERE

Audio from House Judiciary Committee HERE

House Floor Video, Day 15 (2/5/2018) [HB102S1]

Senate Floor Video, Day 24 (2/14/2018) [1HB102 Use of Force Amendments, Anderegg]

This bill modifies criminal provisions related to use of force.
▸     addresses when a person is not justified in using force; and
▸     makes technical changes.

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H.B. 129 — Rep. Maloy and Hinkin
SELF-DEFENSE AMENDMENT — STATUS: 2/21 – Senate to standing committee Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee

Audio House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee HERE

House Floor Video, Day 22 (2/12/2018) [HB129]

This bill clarifies that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor.
This bill:
▸     provides that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor even if there  is a safe place to which the individual can retreat;
▸     provides that an individual’s failure to retreat is not relevant when determining whether the individual acted reasonably; and makes technical changes.

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Updated will be provided as they become available.

FLORIDA SCHOOL SHOOTING

By now just about everyone has heard about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

We are deeply saddened over the loss of so many young lives in this shooting incident in Parkland, Florida, our hearts reach out to the families of those who lost their lives in this horrible tragedy.

The familiarity is what should horrify us the most: A school shooting with a bunch of people dead, many of them children. This time, it’s a 17 dead, the shooter a 19-year-old who had been expelled from the school.

What can we do? What should we do?

The answers are not easy, and they inevitably involve a trade-off: accepting the unacceptable, or restricting our freedoms. The three big ones are freedom of the press (publicity gives oxygen to these kinds of acts, so restricting coverage will reduce copycats); the right to bear arms (guns don’t cause human evil); and due process (targeting potential mass shooters, or mentally ill people in general, is possible, but requires us to curtail Americans’ civil rights before they have actually committed a crime).

It is by no means clear that any of these solutions would be more effective than the others, and each of them involves punishing a very large number of people in order to stop the evil-doings of a very small number of people.

Gun owners are used to hearing, almost in the same breath, “we’ll stop shootings by banning all guns” and “nobody’s trying to take your guns away.”

As always, human beings are the real weapons of mass destruction, and the tools they choose are not the causes of violence. 

Security

Defensive measures are a hollow promise. It’s prohibitively expensive to provide every school, movie theater, workplace, hospital or other “soft target” with an armed guard.

Nor is there a handy social or religious answer. The sickness that leads people to this kind of act may be in some ways emotional or spiritual, but history gives us no reason to believe that there is a key to preventing an angry minority of people from going bad. There never has been, and there never will be.

There are only easy answers if you are willing to sacrifice rights you don’t care about, and that other people do. That’s never been a kind of solution Americans could pursue without embarrassment and regret. Unless and until we can find a better, more reliable way to identify potential mass shooters early, we have to acknowledge the nature of the choice before us: Punish many innocent people or remain mostly defenseless against the malicious few.

Nobody wants to make one side of that trade. But nobody wants to face the other side either.

UTAH 2018 LEGISLATIVE ACTION LIST – FEB. 15, 2018

H.B. 312 — Rep. Lisonbee
CONCEALED CARRY AMENDMENTS — Status: 2/13 – Passed Favorably by House Rules Committee– 3rd Reading in House

Audio from House Judiciary Committee HERE

This bill:
▸     provides that a provisional concealed carry permit holder may, before age 21, apply for a concealed carry permit that becomes valid at age 21; and
▸     makes technical changes.
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H.B. 328 — Rep. Thurston
WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS AMENDMENTS — STATUS: 2/15 -House Committee – Not Considered

This bill:
▸     eliminates the prohibition of carrying a dangerous weapon while a person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit under certain circumstances; and
▸     provides an exception if a person uses a dangerous weapon in the person’s residence
or in defense of others and the person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit.

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H.B. 102S01 — Rep. Greene
USE OF FORCE AMENDMENTS (SELF DEFENSE AMENDMENT) — STATUS: 2/14 – Senate – Passed Second Reading

Audio from Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee HERE

Audio from House Judiciary Committee HERE

House Floor Video, Day 15 (2/5/2018) [HB102S1]

Senate Floor Video, Day 24 (2/14/2018) [1HB102 Use of Force Amendments, Anderegg]

This bill modifies criminal provisions related to use of force.
▸     addresses when a person is not justified in using force; and
▸     makes technical changes.

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H.B. 129 — Rep. Maloy and Hinkin
SELF-DEFENSE AMENDMENT — STATUS: 2/14 – Senate to standing committee

Audio House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee HERE

House Floor Video, Day 22 (2/12/2018) [HB129]

This bill clarifies that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor.
This bill:
▸     provides that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor even if there  is a safe place to which the individual can retreat;
▸     provides that an individual’s failure to retreat is not relevant when determining whether the individual acted reasonably; and makes technical changes.

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Updated will be provided as they become available.

UTAH ARMED GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUES COP UNDER ATTACK

While this individual did not obtain his permit through Utah CCW Carry, his friend attended our class this last Saturday, February 3, 2018 who shared this story with us.  This is what being an armed citizen is all about.  Trumping evil and the wrong doings of those that wish to harm us and others. – Aaron

SPRINGVILLE, Utah — An armed good Samaritan scared off a suspect who was pummeling a Utah officer.

Media reports that on Friday, the officer noticed a pair of feet dangling from a donation bin and ordered the suspect out of it. When the suspect, Paul Douglas Anderson, exited the bin, he ignored commands and began punching the officer in the face.

The suspect repeatedly struck the officer until a passerby, Derek Meyer, witnessed the attack and intervened.

Meyer, who has a concealed-carry permit, drew his weapon and ordered Anderson to get off of the officer. The suspect ran off. Officers eventually found the suspect hiding under a trailer and arrested him.

Corporal Cory Waters praised Meyer’s actions and said it made a huge difference.

“Had he not been in the right place at the right time, who knows what would have happened,” Waters said. “But he definitely stopped the attack from continuing and becoming much worse. He might have even saved either one of their lives. It could have gone really bad, even for the suspect.”

Meyer said he did it “because of who I am.”

“I carry a gun to protect me and those around me, but primarily I carry a gun to protect my family first and foremost,” Meyer said. “Outside of that, if I were to use my gun to protect anyone it would be law enforcement or military personnel.”

Waters warned people like Meyer to always be careful in high-stress situations like this. He said that officers are wary of anyone nearby with a weapon.

The injured officer suffered a fractured eye socket and lacerations around the eye. He was released from a hospital and is expected to recover.

Anderson faces numerous charges.

UTAH 2018 LEGISLATIVE ACTION LIST – FEB. 5, 2018

H.B. 312 — Rep. Lisonbee
CONCEALED CARRY AMENDMENTS — Status: House Rules Committee

This bill:
▸     provides that a provisional concealed carry permit holder may, before age 21, apply for a concealed carry permit that becomes valid at age 21; and
▸     makes technical changes.
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H.B. 328 — Rep. Thurston
WEAPONS RESTRICTIONS AMENDMENTS — STATUS: House/ received bill from Legislative Research

This bill:
▸     eliminates the prohibition of carrying a dangerous weapon while a person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit under certain circumstances; and
▸     provides an exception if a person uses a dangerous weapon in the person’s residence
or in defense of others and the person’s alcohol concentration level exceeds the statutory limit.

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H.B. 102S01 — Rep. Greene
USE OF FORCE AMENDMENTS (SELF DEFENSE AMENDMENT) — STATUS: Senate Secretary

This bill modifies criminal provisions related to use of force.
▸     addresses when a person is not justified in using force; and
▸     makes technical changes.

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H.B. 129 — Rep. Maloy and Hinkin
SELF-DEFENSE AMENDMENT — STATUS: House 3rd Reading Calendar for House bills

This bill clarifies that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor.
This bill:
▸     provides that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor even if there  is a safe place to which the individual can retreat;
▸     provides that an individual’s failure to retreat is not relevant when determining whether the individual acted reasonably; and makes technical changes.

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Updated will be provided as they become available.

UTAH 2018 LEGISLATIVE ACTION LIST – JAN. 22, 2018

NEW BILLS ADDED

HOUSE BILL NOT NUMBERED — Rep. Anderegg
CONCEALED CARRY TRAINING AMENDMENTS — Status: NOT NUMBERED

This bill:
No information until numbered
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HOUSE BILL NOT NUMBERED — Rep. Lisonbee and Sen. Weiler
WEAPONS AMENDMENTS — Status: NOT NUMBERED

This bill:
No information until numbered

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H.B. 102 — Rep. Greene
USE OF FORCE AMENDMENTS — STATUS: House/ to standing committee 1/22/2018

General Description:
This bill modifies criminal provisions related to use of force.
▸     addresses when a person is not justified in using force; and
▸     makes technical changes.

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H.B. 129 — Rep. Maloy and Hinkin
SELF-DEFENSE AMENDMENT — STATUS: House/ to standing committee 1/22/2018

General Description:
This bill clarifies that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor.
This bill:
▸     provides that an individual is not required to retreat from an aggressor even if there  is a safe place to which the individual can retreat;
▸     provides that an individual’s failure to retreat is not relevant when determining whether the individual acted reasonably; and makes technical changes.

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Updated will be provided as they become available.

**UPDATE** PROVISIONAL PERMITS FOR 18 – 20 YEARS OLD.

Provisional Permits:

 

Utah BCI, the issuing agency has released the process for Provisional Permits.  The short and sweet answer is, IT EXACTLY the same process as a 21 y.o. and over permit.  Same class, same material, same process.  refund

Please share with your friends and family if they are looking for a permit.  If you feel the course exceed your expectations, I would appreciate the referrals.

Thanks again and let me know if you have any questions, now or in the future,

PROVISIONAL PERMITS FOR 18 – 20 YEARS OLD.

Provisional Permit:

I have inundated with questions regarding the Provisional Permit for those 18-20 years old.

We have not been provided any information from Utah BCI in regards to how provisional permits will be issued.  Once we are provided the information, our homepage will be updated.

With that said, since the context of the material will not be changing, it is our belief that the process will be exactly the same as those that are over 21 years old.  We suspect that the only difference will come in the look of the ‘Provisional  Permit’ with an expiration date of the persons 21st birthday.  Otherwise, the process will remain the same.  Maybe a change or two on the application to indicate the provisional status.  

It is our recommendation that if some you know is interested in the Provisional Permit to sign up for a course to reserve your seat and then allow BCI time to disseminate the process to the instructors.  This way when it goes into effect, on or about May 20th, we will good to go.  There will be a rush and classes will fill very quickly.