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Title 53 - Public Safety Code
Chapter 5a - Firearm Laws
Part 2 - Federal Firearm Enforcement Limitation Act
Section 201 - Findings.
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UT Code § 53-5a-201 (2025)
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Effective 3/20/2023
53-5a-201. Findings.
To protect and preserve the individual right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Utah Constitution, Article I, Section 6, the Legislature makes the following findings:
Enacted by Chapter 395, 2023 General Session
53-5a-201. Findings.
To protect and preserve the individual right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Utah Constitution, Article I, Section 6, the Legislature makes the following findings:
- (1) the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees to the state and the state's people all powers not granted to the federal government elsewhere in the United States Constitution and reserves to the state and people of Utah certain powers as those powers were understood at the time that Utah was admitted to statehood;
- (2) the guarantee of powers to the state and the state's people under the Tenth Amendment is a matter of contract between the state and people of Utah and the United States as of the time of statehood;
- (3) the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees to the people rights not granted in the United States Constitution and reserves to the people of Utah certain rights as those rights were understood at the time that Utah was admitted to statehood;
- (4) the guarantee of rights to the people under the Ninth Amendment is a matter of contract between the state and people of Utah and the United States as of the time of statehood;
- (5) the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reserves to the people the right to keep and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that Utah was admitted to statehood, and the guarantee of the right is a matter of contract between the state and people of Utah and the United States as of the time of statehood; and
- (6) the Utah Constitution clearly secures to Utah citizens, and prohibits unconstitutional government interference with, the right of individual Utah citizens to keep and bear arms.
Enacted by Chapter 395, 2023 General Session
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