A measure that would regulate loaded firearms in vehicles was blocked in a Senate committee Friday and likely will fail unless it is substantially changed.
Citizens can carry firearms with loaded magazines in vehicles in Utah, but SB24, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Lehi, would clarify where and how the firearm is secured.
More controversially, Madsen's bill also would allow guns to be carried with a cartridge in position ready to fire...
The Utah Association of Police Chiefs and other law enforcement groups say such ready-to-fire guns in vehicles could escalate road-rage confrontations into firefights and make more arms available to thieves and children.
Naturally. As we've proven time and again here at WarOnGuns, they're the only ones professional enough to be trusted with loaded firearms. The rest of us are just a bunch of uneducated, tyrannical, emotionally unstable, arrogant, vicious, accident-prone, unethical, careless, untrustworthy and hotheaded brutes who will only end up hurting ourselves or others...