This weekend’s shooting at a Colorado Springs nightclub raised questions about why the shooter’s guns weren’t taken from him under Colorado’s red flag law. Utah doesn’t have a similar law. This story from April 2021 explains why.
where it was held by the House Judiciary Committee. The other two times the bill never made it out of the House Rules Committee.
“In 2020 I met with House leadership where they told me they don’t see any path for passage, so they felt the best course of action was to save everybody the grief of having to debate the bill, so I just dropped it,” said Handy. He has not proposed the idea since. Rep. Cory Maloy, R-Lehi, is one of the most ardent gun rights advocates in the Utah Legislature, and he thinks Biden’s proposals are a complete non-starter in the state.
Maloy worries today’s executive orders from Biden just set the table for more aggressive gun control measures from the administration in the future.