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Utah House narrows safe‑harbor firearm return rules after debate on domestic‑violence cases
Summary
Lawmakers adopted a targeted amendment to HB199 to limit return of voluntarily surrendered firearms to people arrested for serious domestic‑violence offenses and then circled the bill for further work; supporters said it fills a gap in the Safe Harbor law, critics warned about due‑process risks.
The Utah House on Feb. 15 adopted an amendment to HB199 that narrows when law enforcement must return firearms surrendered under the state's Safe Harbor provisions and later voted to circle the bill for additional consideration.
Representative Steve Cutler, the bill sponsor, said the measure addresses a gap where firearms voluntarily surrendered for safekeeping have on occasion been returned to persons later arrested for domestic violence. “When they are released from jail, they are given a jail release agreement … Currently under state law, they can immediately go and retrieve that weapon that has been submitted for safekeeping,”…
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