Bad Meth Leads to Shots Fired

Stansbury Park, Utah – A man on drugs was arrested early Tuesday morning after shooting at unseen attackers. Tooele County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) reports deputies were dispatched to calls of shots fired at the Anytime Fitness in Stansbury Park at around 4:40 a.m. When they arrived, officers came into contact with an off-duty deputy who…

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Utah CCW: Are You Required to Notify Police?

One of the more commonly asked questions about carrying a concealed weapon in the state of Utah is whether or not you are required by law to announce to a police officer you are in possession of a loaded firearm. According to the Utah Department of Public Safety, there is no law that says you…

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Cell Phone Transaction Ambush

Salt Lake City, Utah – One man is in jail after robbing a father and his daughter during a cell phone purchase ambush. According to Unified Police Sergeant Melody Gray, the daughter had found a posting online offering to sell an iPhone. After messaging the seller who identified himself as “Lil,” she arranged to meet…

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Bad Father Shot Trying to Retrieve His Kids

Recently out of jail, a father is headed back after threatening to kill a man and his wife who took in his children. According to Police, 43-year-old Raul Rivera of Dickson, North Dakota, dropped off his children at a home in Hurricane, UT, sometime in December 2018. “Investigators further found that Raul had brought his…

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Love Triangle Ends Badly

According to Logan Police Department (LPD) Captain Tyson Budge, 23-year-old Jordan Oakden was staying at the home of her boyfriend and his mother, when her ex-boyfriend showed up at the house uninvited early Friday morning. Captain Budge says 23-year-old Dylan Milian arrived at the home on Riverbend Road at around 6:30 a.m. after texting back…

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Fee’s for the Utah Concealed Firearm Permit Increase

The first of the year saw an increase in the application fees for Concealed Carriers in Utah. According to the Utah.gov site, the finger print-based background check processing fee that the FBI charges has increased the overall cost of the CFP (Concealed Firearms Permit)  from its original cost of $46.00 for residents and $51.00 for…

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Does Utah Accept Online Concealed Carry Classes?

Garden City Utah Shooting

UPDATE: The below article was written prior to Jan 1st, 2021 and at the time it was written one could take an online class and apply for a Virginia non-resident permit. That is NO LONGER TRUE. This article is outdated and the reader should note that Virginia no longer accepts online training. The main takeaway?…

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Open-Carry Restaurant Forced to Conceal Guns

Photo courtesy of standard.net Ogden’s only open-carry restaurant, Sea Bears Ogden Fish House will no longer be able to be Ogden’s only open-carry restaurant. For more than a year now, owners, employees, and patrons of the restaurant have been allowed and encouraged to open-carry the firearm of their choice into the establishment. But with the…

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