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Committee rejects favorable recommendation for comprehensive firearms bill SB 130 after heated public debate
Summary
SB 130, a broad firearms measure that would have banned certain gas‑operated semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, added a five‑day waiting period and criminalized some altered-serial-number firearms, failed to receive committee support and did not pass out of committee.
Senate Bill 130, a 52‑page firearms measure that proposed multiple changes — including a ban on gas‑operated semiautomatic rifles with detachable or high‑capacity magazines, criminal penalties for certain attachments and magazine possession, a five‑day waiting period for dealer sales and expanded penalties for altered serial numbers — failed to win committee approval on Jan. 31.
Sponsor Senator Blake Bluhn framed SB 130 as a prevention tool to reduce mass-shooting lethality and suicide, noting that “83% of gun deaths in Utah are people who died by suicide…
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