Utah: Where Your CCW Isn’t Valid

One of the most common questions asked about CCW in the state of Utah is where you can and cannot legally carry a concealed firearm. Since your CCW permit does not grant you permission to carry anywhere you choose, there are some key places to avoid if you have your gun on you. According to…

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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 This article is outdated and the reader should note that Virginia no longer accepts online training.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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Pennsylvania Stops Recognizing Utah’s CCW Permit

Of course Utah’s policy is that non-residents who live in a state that has reciprocity with Utah must first obtain a permit from their home state before applying for the Utah permit. Either way you want to look at it the state of Pennsylvania no longer honors the Utah permit.

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Nevada No Longer Honoring The Arizona Permit

The more recent loophole was for people to apply for a non-resident Arizona permit which was being honored by Nevada. Now, Nevada has removed Arizona as well, from its list of honored state permits. Nevada essentially has shown that they will honor permits from states who require similar training standards in order to obtain the permit.

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Concealed Carry Reciprocity Explained

Each state gets to decide if they are going to issue Concealed Weapon Permits to their citizens. Then of course they get to decide what they are going to require people to do in order to apply for and obtain that permit. This varies so much from

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House Passes National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Bill

Well, the house finally passed a bill that essentially would make all states who issue concealed carry permits, honor permits from any state. This would take a lot of the guess work out of the national travel problems that current concealed carry holders face. Currently only Illinois and DC do not honor any form of…

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Utah concealed weapons permits now invalid in N.M.

New Mexico is no longer recognizing Utah’s concealed carry licenses in New Mexico, saying Utah’s license requirements don’t meet New Mexico standards. Utah licenses require significantly less training than New Mexico licenses do, state Public Safety Secretary John Denko said. New Mexico’s concealed carry requirements are designed to protect public safety while ensuring Second Amendment…

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