gun safety

The proposal says public school students would receive mandatory instruction throughout their K-12 years on how to respond if they encounter a gun. Tennessee has a similar law on the books.

Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas already have vending machines that sell ammunition. The first machines in the West will be in Colorado, followed by ones in Utah and Nevada, says the CEO of American Rounds.

In recent weeks, multiple Utah children have died because of firearms, including an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself. Non-lethal injury figures are already signaling a worrying trend.

Utah’s new school safety law requires an armed individual to be at every K-12 school to protect the kids inside. That includes thousands of young children who attend pre-K or daycare in K-12 school buildings.

The board of the nonprofit Civilian Marksmanship Program voted to withdraw their plans after community pushback.

Police records show that 75-year-old Craig Robertson of Provo had a history of frightening people with firearms. Robertson was killed last week as the FBI tried to arrest him for threats made against President Joe Biden.

Two Highland High School students brought handguns to school on Monday, according to Salt Lake City Police. Both students were arrested and the school went into a “secure alert.”

Democratic state Senator Derek Kitchen wants to raise the legal age to buy a gun in Utah from 18 to 21.

A resolution opposing additional gun control became the first major gun legislation of the Utah Legislature’s 2019 session on Tuesday, bringing out…

Three weeks after Lauren McCluskey’s murder at the University of Utah, Jill McCluskey sent a Tweet saying the person who lent a gun to her daughter’s…

With the help of a group of Harvard public health researchers, a Utah lawmaker is planning to introduce legislation on gun safety to try to reduce our…

Following the recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla., a new school safety commission was announced on Thursday at the Utah Legislature.The new…