There has never been a more important time in sportsmen’s history than now to be involved and engaged in protecting our way of life. Animal extremists and other radical elements are working hard to cancel sportsmen’s rights and our way of life forever. Even Utah is not safe.
Last Friday, the Senate Natural Resources Committee heard a bill that would have cratered hunting and firearm ownership in the Beehive State. Thankfully, the bill overwhelmingly failed 5 to 1 to receive a favorable recommendation by the committee. Essential, defeating the bill for the year.
Utah’s 45-day legislative session is not over yet. The Sportsmen’s Alliance Government Affairs team will continue to monitor SB 130 and other bills moving through the legislative process. Nothing is completely defeated until the legislative session adjourns sine die.
banned the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, receive, or possess, in certain circumstances, a gas-operated semiautomatic firearm;
required the Department of Public Safety to create a system for individuals who possess certain gas-operated semiautomatic firearms before January 1, 2027, to register the firearm with the department; and
required, beginning on January 1, 2027, a manufacturer or seller of gas-operated semiautomatic firearms that is manufacturing or selling the firearms to the government of the United States, a state, or a federally recognized tribe, to mark on the firearm that the firearm may only be used by a government employee in accordance with government policy;
created a waiting period, with certain exemptions, between the purchase of a firearm from a dealer and the delivery of the firearm to the purchaser;
created a criminal offense beginning on January 1, 2027, for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, receive, or possess, in certain circumstances, a large-capacity ammunition feeding device.
The Sportsmen’s Alliance guarantees hunting, fishing and trapping for the American sportsman now and forever. We’re there when sportsmen need us most. We are the only organization specifically created to protect the individual hunter, angler and trapper – no matter the threat. We will never compromise when it comes to defending our way of life in the courts, in the legislatures, in the public square and at the ballot box. We make this promise to the American sportsman: we will never give up and never give in while proudly securing our future against those seeking to destroy our values, beliefs, and traditions. Stay connected to Sportsmen’s Alliance:Online, Facebook,Twitter and Instagram.
