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Home > Alerts & Updates > 2020 Bill Tracking Page > HB 271: Elitist GOP Deep State Declares Open Season on Homeless Gun Owners

 

HB 271: Elitist GOP Deep State Declares Open Season on Homeless Gun Owners

Threat briefing last updated: 3/10/20 at 3:40p
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Summary: House Bill 271 (HB 271) was originally listed as a "Good" bill.  It restricted any state or local agency or local government authority/entity from prohibiting firearms or firearm accessories to any extent that is more restrictive than state statute.

Thanks to hostile amendments by gun control zealot Paul Ray ("Republican"), however, HB 271 now empowers these government agents and agencies to prohibit homeless gun owners, and those who visit them, from possessing firearms inside government-controlled homeless shelters.  All possession could be banned without requiring so much as a secure storage locker, or armed personnel to protect them absent their firearms.

Ray's amendments also provide Statute Enforcement Agents (SEAs) immunity from lawsuit or liability for "knowingly" and "willfully" violating the rights of gun owners.  This despicable double-standard should be compared with recently-passed HB 73, which provides jail time for Citizens who "unknowingly" and "unintentionally" "interfere" with SEAs.

The message of betrayal from the corrupt, elitist GOP Deep State is clear: It is open season on Utah gun owners.  SEAs and local officials are encouraged to abuse gun owners and disarm them whenever they wish starting with those who are the most financially-vulnerable.

Position: UT Gun Rights opposes this bill.

Status: Alert!  This bill passed the entire state house, and is now in Stuart Adams' hand-picked senate rules committee.  See its bill status page. Find and contact your house (including the house bully, Brad Wilson), senate (including the senate bully, Stuart Adams), and executive branch officials.

IMPORTANT UPDATE! Killing it in the senate is a reasonable approach, however, the house can still take action. Any house member can initiate action to kill HB 271 in three ways.

(1) The preferred solution is for a house member to make a motion to strike the bill's enabling clause, by a constitutional majority of house members.  See JR4-3-109. Striking the enacting clause.

(2) A house member can also make a motion for the bill to be "returned" to the house, but this requires approval by both houses.  See JR4-3-203.  Possession of a bill -- Process for obtaining the return of legislation sent to the other house.

(3) A house member can also make a motion to "recall" the bill to the house, but this again requires approval by both houses.  See JR4-5-201.  Recalling legislation before it is signed by the speaker and president.

Sponsors: Cory Maloy ("Republican") in the house and Curt Bramble ("Republican") in the senate.

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1. Original HB 271 Before it was Hijacked

Government Contractors Could No Longer be Coerced

Actual Risk to SEAs Who Abuse Gun Owners

Government Shooting Ranges Excepted

2. Utah's Secretive Deep State Inserts Sinister Amendments

Open Season on Homeless Gun Owners

Removal of Individual Liability for Abusive SEAs

3. Feudalism in Zion: Only Powerful Land Owners Enjoy Rights

4. "Pro-RKBA" Organizations Cheerleading for another Boner

5. Appropriate Action

Refuse to be Divided  — No Matter What

Demand More Rigorous Bill Study

Oppose Rushed Bills by Default

Oppose Bills that Start Badly NO MATTER WHAT

Recognize that Political Feces Rolls Downhill

Start the Real Work AFTER the Session


Utah's legislature is only adept at stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.
1. Original HB 271 Before it was Hijacked

HB 271 originally tightened up language asserting that the Utah state legislature was the only body that could PROHIBIT the possession and use of firearms and firearm accessories.

From lines 61-62 (underlined italics indicates new language; words in brackets with strikethrough indicates stricken language):

"...The Legislature occupies the whole field of state regulation of firearms and ammunition..."

It is reasonable for state statute, in this case any statutory regulation (i.e. restriction) of firearms and ammunition, to be defined by the highest body of government.  Were this current crop of legislators capable of occupying more than jail cells and unemployment lines, such language would be more comforting.

Allowing lower bodies to restrict fundamental rights, however, opens the door to a confusing mess of contradiction.  How can any gun owner know which regulations are in place for every county or municipality he/she may conduct personal or business activities in?

[DISCLAIMER: Whenever statutory powers are debated, it is critical to differentiate between natural law and statute.  Natural law represents rules of conduct that are inherently just, unchanging, and beyond human perversion.  By contrast, statutes are demands and impositions which frequently undermine and subvert natural law.
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Salt Lake County mayor Jenny Wilson thinks it's cute to violate the natural rights of Utah gun owners and private vendors.
Government Contractors Could No Longer be Coerced

HB 271 also removed private or pseudo-private contracting vendors from the equation.

"Unless specifically authorized by the Legislature by statute, a local authority or state [entity] agency, including organizations or vendors that contract with a local authority or state agency, may not enact, establish, or enforce any ordinance, regulation, rule, or policy pertaining to firearms that in any way inhibits or restricts the possession, transfer, or use of firearms on either public or private property. (lines 78-81)

In 2019, Salt Lake County mayor Jennifer Wilson abused her power by acting "under color of the law" to coerce private vendors associated with gun shows held in county facilities to subject private sales to a federal background check.  Her handlers rationalized their abuses by supposing that existing statute did not explicitly prohibit them from regulating the "transfer" of firearms.

HB 271 would theoretically prohibit such abuse of power, though it is arguably implied in the existing statute.  How can an individual "possess" a firearm if he/she cannot freely give or receive it?  Wilson and her handlers were skating on thin ice, and they knew it.

HB 271 also provides the caveat that private property rights not be impacted:

"Nothing in this part restricts or expands private property rights." (line 233)

As it should be.


In 2017, Utah Nurse Alex Wubbels was violently arrested after refusing to draw blood from an unconscious accident victim.  Her perpetrator, then-detective Jeff Payne, was never charged with a crime. His supervisor, James Tracy, is still employed with the SLC Police Department.
Actual Risk to SEAs Who Abuse Gun Owners

As UT Gun Rights has repeatedly stressed over several years, state Statute Enforcement Agents (SEAs) who violate the rights of innocent gun owners almost never face substantive punishment. 

Why?  Because Utah's prison industrial complex currently shields, harbors, protects, and encourages violent thugs, including corrupt police officers, prosecuting attorneys, and injustice court judges, to grossly violate the natural rights of citizens.

As Clark Aposhian of the Utah Shooting Sports Council discovered, Utah's injustice system is entirely stacked against the innocent.  So much so, these regime criminals are protected by a comprehensive patchwork of government immunity statutes, pseudo-governmental unions, and often the state itself, when they abuse their employers (i.e. you).

Learn more about the history of Utah's perverse government agent immunity statutes by studying SB 176 S2 enacted in 2015, SB 55 S1 enacted in 2004, and SB 225 S1 enacted in 2003.

Therefore, the most encouraging part of the original HB 271 was that it created a grievance process that specifically waived "government immunity statutes" for entities AND THEIR SEAs who dare to act beyond state statute in prohibiting firearm possession and use.

In the case of individual SEAs, they could be PERSONALLY SUED and were PERSONALLY LIABLE:

"...An individual acting in an official capacity for a state agency or local authority who knowingly or willfully violates this part is not immune from suit or liability for the violation." (lines 427-429)

Word of personal liability, particularly amongst SEAs, gets around very quickly.  If they know they are putting themselves at risk, they will be far more cautious generally.

In a just society, this would be the absolute standard.

Government Shooting Ranges Excepted

Another exception regarded public shooting ranges:

"A political subdivision may enact an ordinance, rule, or resolution regarding the use of public shooting ranges, facilities, and targets, to include limits on the use of firearms and ammunition within the range design criteria." (lines 51-53)

This appears to be restrictive of shooting ranges that, according to, "47-3-301. Access to publicly funded ranges," are,

"...Constructed with public funds and operated or controlled by the state, an institution of higher education, or a political subdivision...."

As such, UT Gun Rights viewed this as acceptable.

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House member Paul "Supersize Me" Ray.  Picture courtesy of Justice4All.blog
2. Utah's Secretive Deep State Inserts Sinister Amendments

In typical fashion, Utah's secretive Deep State deliberately took control of HB 271.  They did so in two ways:

1) Notorious gun control charlatan Curt Bramble was recruited as HB 271's senate sponsor. Bramble has a lifetime corruption rating of -135% (that's MINUS).

Bramble is typically employed to undermine, neutralize, and pervert positive legislative efforts.  Learn about his devastating role in enacting HB 276: Violence Against Gun Owners in 2014, for example.  Or his pivotal role in re-opening the floodgates of taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

2) Paul "Supersize Me" Ray introduced hostile amendments to HB 271 designed to destroy its original purpose, and to pit Utah's community of gun owners against each other.

Ray is addicted to more than just fast food and opioid campaign contributions.  He has a lifetime corruption rating of -61% (that's MINUS). 

Ray is often at the nexus of gun control efforts, to include sponsoring the original Veteran Disarmament Courts pilot program in 2015.  In 2013, he played a pivotal role in attacking the right of Utahans to open carry.

Ray and his handlers are employing a "divide and conquer" strategy.  Today's lure is the false hope that the remaining "good" portions of HB 271 will better protect you and gun owners in your social circles.

In exchange for this "protection," however, you must willingly throw your poorer brothers and sisters those who are are unable to keep a roof over their heads under the gun control bus.


Fraud capital states like Utah impose gun control against the most vulnerable among us.
Open Season on Homeless Gun Owners

Paul "Supersize Me" Ray continues to serve his ethically-vacuous, heartless, effeminate masters well.  From his hostile amendments on lines 87a to 87f:

53-5a-103.5. Homeless Shelters.
1) As used in this section, "homeless shelter" means a facility that provides temporary shelter to homeless individuals and has the capacity to provide temporary shelter to at least 20 individuals per night.
(2) A local government entity may prohibit the possession of firearms within a homeless shelter over which it exercises authority.
[bold added]

Consider the poisonous impact of this language.  A firearm is often the only realistic means a homeless gun owner may have to defend self or family.

Where does she leave her firearm if she must seek shelter?  Should she hide it under a bush outside and hope to retrieve it in the morning?  Should she surrender it to authorities and lose her ability to protect herself from violent criminals?  Should she remain outside in the cold with her only means of protection?

Under Ray's amendment, state and local agencies and local governments enjoy complete latitude to ban firearms on taxpayer-funded properties without any accountability for harm done to innocent gun owners.  For example:

1) Secure lockers are NOT required to be provided for gun owners who sleep in the facility, or those who visit them.

2) No 24-hour armed security is required to be present to protect disarmed gun owners from violence in these facilities or when they leave.  For visitors, this likely means leaving their firearms at home, or in unsecured vehicles parked in dangerous areas.

3) No signs need be posted at these facilities, requiring Citizens to be independently familiar with any obscure policies or rules prohibiting firearms.

Innocent gun owners compelled to utilize the tax-funded facilities they have already contributed to, must entirely disarm and pray they are not murdered, raped, or otherwise attacked and molested.


UHP "Trooper of the Year 2007", Lisa Steed, admitted in court to intentionally violating internal policy in order to issue DUIs, including to drivers later found clean of drugs.  In this 2009 video, Steed tazered a driver (also clean of drugs) for requesting to speak with an attorney (see related story). Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of Utahans were ensnared by her malevolent actions, yet Utah AG Sean "Rambo" Reyes settled her case in 2016 without filing any criminal charges.  Steed remains at large and should be considered armed and dangerous.
Removal of Individual Liability for Abusive SEAs

Paul "Supersize Me" Ray's hostile amendments to HB 271 also included striking the following language:

"...[An individual acting in an official capacity for a state agency or local authority who knowingly or willfully violates this part is not immune from suit or liability for the violation]." (lines 427-429)

In other words, Statute Enforcement Agents (SEAs) will be personally immune from accountability in Utah's injustice courts.  Think about the incredible double-standard this perpetrates.

SEAs are personally immune from liability even if they KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY violate state statute.  They have no duty or obligation under HB 271 to follow the statute at all.  They can abuse innocent gun owners at will.

In the 2020 Bill Tracking Page: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, UT Gun Rights highlighted a bill that shows just how different the standards of accountability are between SEAs and the Citizens they supposedly serve.

House Bill 73: Jail Time for Unknowingly and Unintentionally "Interfering" with State Agents: HB 73 provides that nearly anything could be considered "intereference" and "obstruction" of a "public servant," punishable by imprisonment and fines.  Line 32 also strikes the essential language that such behavior be done "knowingly" and "intentionally."  Someone who doesn't even COMPREHEND that he/she is "interfering" or "obstructing" would be "guilty." And if in possession of a firearm, additional charges could theoretically be added (i.e. a "crime" committed with a dangerous weapon). There would be a "chilling effect" on gun owners who might have a duty to NON-VIOLENTLY refuse to cooperate with unjust, inappropriate police behaviors. 


In 2013, Box Elder County Sheriff's Office agent Scott Womack pled "no contest" to multiple state charges of sexually assaulting females he pulled over in routine traffic stops. As part of his "plea deal", he was convicted of misdemeanors only, sentenced to only 1-year in state prison, and only appeared on Utah's sex registry database for 5-years. He was later convicted and sentenced to only 18-months for various sexual-assault-related charges in a federal injustice court. Utah SEAs are subject to different standards than you are, and often violate your rights, and state statute, with near impunity.
Did you get that?  Citizens are unknowingly and unintentionally "guilty" of "interfering" or "obstructing" state statute.  Meanwhile, SEAs can knowingly and willfully do the same without fear or accountability.

Supporters may argue that HB 271 still retains language that falsely appears to waive immunity for SEAs in lines 206-208:

"Immunity from suit of each governmental entity and its employees or agents is waived with respect to the provisions of Title 78B, Chapter 6, Part 22, Firearms Preemption Enforcement Act."

Part 22, comprised of lines 362-429, creates a process for agrieved gun owners whose rights were violated.  Lines 404-429 lay out the specifics.

With the deletion of lines 427-429, however, this new process specifically EXCLUDES any court action against SEAs who carried out that abuse.  Only government agencies and entities can be sued.

In other words, without lines 427-429, lines 206-208 are meaningless.  SEAs once again enjoy immunity when they abuse innocent gun owners.

Why is this so significant?  Most Citizens lack the resources to engage in long court battles with faceless government agencies and entities.  The only real deterrent every Citizen can equally afford is for SEAs to fear the potential risks of spending their own time and resources in court.

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Zion's brand of Feudalism includes 24/7 elite security for the shepherds... and Sesame Street's "Elmo Approach" for the sheep. See "Armed Texas Non-Mormons Stop Shooter: Lessons for Disarmed Mormons*."
3. Feudalism in Zion: Only Powerful Land Owners Enjoy Rights

During the Dark Ages of Feudalism, land ownership often separated those who could enjoy the full exercise of their natural rights, and those who could not.  Landed "Lords" ruled and divided territories granted to them by "Monarchs."  Those without land typically served these elites as "Serfs," or slaves.

Even during the early settlement and founding of America, voting and other natural rights were often restricted to those who owned land.  Those who were not fortunate enough to own land were deprived of the right to vote, and were thereby more vulnerable to attacks against their natural rights.  This only changed as community brothers came together to demand more.

The corrupt, globalist elites who control and manage the current Utah Statutarium (aka "legislature"), and who have turned Utah into the fraud capital of America, have spent decades busily pursuing their own brand of Feudalism.  Everything is a "pay-to-play" game for them, and taxpaying Citizens are the "reservoir of funds" they shamelessly exploit.

First, they reduce your brothers and sisters to poverty via heavy taxation, regulation, and outright theft.  Once on the street and impoverished, what few natural rights and protections they haver are destroyed by bills like HB 271.

In, "Warning! Utah's "Cannabis" Bill Designed to Entrap Gun Owners," UT Gun Rights revealed how innocent Utahans are being targeted for gun control abuses who are severely or terminally ill, pain-ridden, and destitute.  The greater the Citizen's vulnerability, the easier his/her rights can be restricted through regulation.

And as was exposed in "Armed Texas Non-Mormons Stop Shooter: Lessons for Disarmed Mormons*," Utah is the place... for a rebranded form of Feudalism, where corrupt elitists flagrantly demonstrate their deep-seeded disdain and contempt for honest, sincere human beings and real community.

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There will be many contenders for this year's French Army Award. 
4. "Pro-RKBA" Organizations Cheerleading for another Boner

Utah's Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) community is falling hard for HB 271.  For example, the Utah Shooting SPORTS Council (USSC) continues to support HB 271 with the following message:

"Clarifies that Counties, cities, etc cannot make gun laws or require background checks not required by state law.
(Yes, this is a smack down of Salt Lake County's attempt to impose firearms restrictions by telling their contractor, who runs the county owned Mountain American Expo Center, to require gun show promoters to conduct universal background checks or they cannot rent the facility. Shame on the SL County Mayor Jenny Wilson and District Attorney Sim Gill for the clear violation of the intent of existing state law!)
STRONGLY SUPPORT!
"

Ironically, the USSC markets itself as refusing to compromise over fundamental human, constitutional and civil rights, regardless of an individuals "status":

"USSC is committed to the principle of supporting the fundamental human, constitutional, and civil rights of every individual without regard to race, gender, ethnic or national origin, religion, political affiliation, age, physical disability, or other status. On these fundamental human, constitutional and civil rights, there can and will be no compromise." [Source: USSC "About Us" page]

Well, what about the "status" of the homeless who have now been targeted for discrimination by a bill the USSC "strongly support[s]"?  Why is compromise "ok" in this instance?

Perhaps the USSC simply did not catch the problems with Paul "Supersize Me" Ray's amendments with regard to homeless gun owners?

The nefarious schemes constantly concocted by Utah's political effeminate lowlifes are so insidious and complex, they are often confusing and difficult to catch.  No individual or organization is sharp enough to catch every trick of their dark trade.

As Warfighting, the Marine Corps Book of Instruction, expressed it:

"In an environment of friction, uncertainty, and fluidity, war gravitates naturally toward disorder. Like the other attributes of the environment of war, disorder is an integral characteristic of war; we can never eliminate it. In the heat of battle, plans will go awry, instructions and information will be unclear and misinterpreted, communications will fail, and mistakes and unforeseen events will be commonplace. It is precisely this natural disorder which creates the conditions ripe for exploitation by an opportunistic will."

The opportunistic will, in the case of HB 271, consists of corrupt agitators like Paul "Supersize Me" Ray, who deliberately inserted poison and chaos into what could have been an essentially clean and productive bill.

Unfortunately in the case of USSC, this isn't an isolated mistake or oversight.  USSC has an abysmal track record of falling for opportunistic agitators.  Look at UT Gun Rights' 2020 Bill Tracking Page: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, and examine how many of the gun control bills are either supported, or not opposed, by USSC.

USSC supports...

* HB 197 "Bureaucratic Jury-less Penalties that Exclusively Discriminate Against Innocent Gun Owners";

* HB 171 "Point Your Finger-Gun in School & Go to Jail".

USSC has taken no position on...

 * HB 73 "Jail Time for Unknowingly and Unintentionally 'Interfering' with State Agents";

* HB 100 "Veteran Disarmament Courts";

* SB 62 "Gun Control by Unelected Bureaucrats".

USSC is "neutral" on...

* SB 87 "Government-Endorsed Theft of Firearms from Innocent Owners".

These problems date back to at least 2013, when Clark Aposhian, president of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, appeared to secretively facilitate opposition to a permitless carry bill.

USSC has repeatedly demonstrated that the damage done by supposed allies can be far more devastating than the worst communist, snowflake Democrat.  As U.S. General George S. Patton purportedly expressed it during World War II,

"I'd rather have a division of Germans in front of me, than a French one behind me."

USSC is not alone in its support of HB 271.  Other organizations, for whatever reasons, have fallen for its trappings, including:

Utah Grassroots: See their alert.

Utah Carry Laws: See their bill tracking page.

Utah Firearms Association: See their alert.

Are these mistakes deliberate?  Likely not in all cases.  All organizations, including UT Gun Rights, err and miscalculate.  Such is the nature of political warfare.

As long as the "leaders" of the RKBA community fall for cheap divide-and-conquer distractions, however, gun owners lose.  And the losses are becoming exponentially more significant every year.

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Utah's political theater encapsulated in one photo.
[Note: This is an undoctored photo taken in the Utah house.]
5. Appropriate Action

The gun control games exposed in this threat assessment are not new to the 2020 general legislative session.  Gun owners have been abused like this for a long time.

It bears repeating that the globalist elites who control and manage the Utah's current statutarium (aka "legislature"), and who have turned Utah into the fraud capital of America, have spent decades busily pursuing their own brand of Feudalism.  Everything is a "pay-to-play" game for them, and you are the "reservoir of funds" they shamelessly exploit.

As awful statutes begin to pile up against them, gun owners are increasingly realizing how corrupt, degenerate, and illegitimate the entire Utah political process has become.  And that is positive, because only a highly-informed community can overcome the manipulation, deception, and fraud infesting every corner of Utah society.

Eventually, more gun owners must join the comunity of Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) savvy citizens, denounce the abysmal traitors and/or ignoramouses currently infesting every branch of Utah government, and help motivate Utah's RKBA community to step up its game in a big way.

Below are a few suggestions on how this can be accomplished.


NEVER leave a brother or sister behind.
Refuse to be Divided No Matter What

If Utah gun owners are to exert their power more completely, they must utterly refuse to accept any bill that unjustly discriminates against innocent members of their community.

"Sports" rights, "open carry" rights, "concealed carry" rights, etc., are all NATURAL RIGHTS that all innocent Citizens are entitled to enjoy fully.

No human being should fear that the pro-RKBA community will turn its back on them for political expedience.

No victory is worth the cost.  Ever.

In the case of HB 271, gun owners should vehemently oppose throwing their homeless brothers and sisters under the gun control bus.


The most potent political weapon we possess lies between our ears.  Pictured is American revolutionary author and soldier, Thomas Paine.
Demand More Rigorous Bill Study

Bills, and changes to proposed bills, must be studied far more rigorously, and publicly, before they are championed.  Utah statute is too complex and hostile by its nature to treat lightly or flippantly.

What are potentially-unseen ramifications of a given bill?  Can you think of any constituencies who might be unjustly harmed?  Can anyone else come up with a potential problem?

Do you comprehend each line of code sufficiently to support it with confidence?  Or is something nagging in the back of your mind?  Trust that instinct.  Whenever you deal with slimy serpents, you should err on the side of extreme caution.

That caution applies to everyone.  No sponsor, lobbyist, or organization should be trusted exclusively to comprehend bills and judge bills including UT Gun Rights.

Notice that UT Gun Rights cites other organizations that disagree with various positions.  This is not merely to "bash them," but to encourage public study and debate.


"Have we got a deal for you gun owners!"
Oppose Rushed Bills by Default

When bills are sprung on gun owners with little time to digest them, the default position should be to oppose them.  Rushed efforts are rarely positive, and almost always hide ulterior motives by the same secretive back channels that currently infest Utah's capitol.

Supporting a "lemon" destroys the credibility of the organizations that backed it.  More importantly, it destroys the morale of honest activists who will eventually realize they were duped.

Even IF a rushed bill is miraculously "net-positive," the precedent for supporting it is dangerous because it sets a precedent that the gun community will tolerate half-ass, last-minute efforts.  Sponsors who expect anything other than ridicule and derision should communicate with Utah's pro-RKBA community EARLY. 


HB 472: Once again, permitless concealed carry is Dead On Arrival (DOA).
For example, there are only lousy excuses for a sponsor to wait until a week before the legislative session ends to release a permitless carry bill.  This just happened with HB 472, which appears to,

 "...Provide[] that an individual who is 21 years or older, and may lawfully possess a firearm, may carry a concealed firearm in a public area without a permit."

Rumors of this bill were circulated months ago.  Yet, the sponsor, Walt Brooks ("Republican"), waited until March 4 to finally release it to the public.  The general session ends on Thursday, March 12. 

Does the sponsor really imagine the entire pro-RKBA community will believe he has any serious intention of getting the bill through both a house and senate committee meeting and house and senate floor votes in SIX BUSINESS DAYS?  Why would anyone take such an absurd, half-ass, paltry "effort" seriously?

Like previous years where gun owners were teased with permitless carry protections that never materialized, this year's bait was tossed out like scraps to dogs.

With multiple gun control bills flying through the statutarium (aka "legislature), dividing gun owners' energies during the last days of the session for a distraction never intended to be pursued, is at least instructive.


You can't paint a pig pretty, especially one at the capitol.
Oppose Bills that Start Badly NO MATTER WHAT

For some reason, pro-RKBA organizations have a tendency to try to "negotiate" with gun control sponsors.  They hold out "olive branches," try to find the "good" in sponsors' intentions, and seek amendments to "make a bad bill less bad."

This is utter nonsense.  If a sponsor publishes a gun control bill, THAT BILL SHOULD BE KILLED WITHOUT EXCEPTION.  Attempts to "negotiate" it into a "neutral" or "good" bill never work, divides constituencies, and facilitates disaster.

If a sponsor has a hostile political track record and/or didn't get it essentially right to begin with, then his bill dies an ignominious death.  He must go back to the drawing board, take more time, and allow for more review and direction from the pro-RKBA community.

In other words, current and future gun control bills should be given the same respect the sponsors give to gun owners.  If sponsors don't like getting slapped down, then he must learn to behave properly.


These two street thugs run the show.  Read, "Two Bullies Steal Your Rights."
Recognize that Political Feces Rolls Downhill

HB 271 has passed the entire state house, and is being pushed by "leadership" through the state house.  See its bill status page.

Barring a concerted and immediate effort by Utah's pro-RKBA community, HB 271 may be enacted by the powerful and corrupt special interests that currently dominate the legislature.

Calls and emails to your legislators have an impact.  But in order to resist gun control effectively, more Utahans need to comprehend who, and what, these special interests are, and how they operate.

They need to learn, for example, that house speaker Brad Wilson and senate president Stuart Adams run roughshod over their state legislators.  These two tyrants set the rules, dominate the entire process, and coerce others to bow to their whims and wishes.

Two males dominate 105 legislators.  Learn more by reading, "Two Bullies Steal Your Rights."  UT Gun Rights will provide additional resources in the near future.


Brad Wilson and Stuart Adams have already answered the question posed at the Feb. 8 "Pro 2A Rally.""
Start the Real Work AFTER the Session

Keep watching UT Gun Rights' 2020 Bill Tracking Page: The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly for critical updates on general session bills.  Be cognizant, however, that gun owners cannot react quickly enough to keep ahead of the games these political criminals play.

When effeminate cowards seize power, they rely on cheap, underhanded tricks to avoid accountability.  These range from parliamentary maneuverings to the insidious application of perverse campaign finance pressure.  They have so infested the capitol battlefield, you are a powerless visitor they (barely) tolerate.

Find that hard to believe?  Consider a bill from at UT Gun Rights' 2020 Bill Tracking Page: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly...

SB 173: Serious Jail Time for Bothering Your Masters: If gun owners "disrupt" or "disturb" legislative meetings, they could land in prison. These terms are not defined.  Will, for example, gun owners who defy current statute against open carry without a holster or case now also be penalized for "disturbing" their precious political theater?  The third offense is a Class A Misdemeanor, punishable by up to 364 days in jail and a fine of as much as $2,500.  Can the third offense be consecutive?  Is a third offense the third time a legislator and/or Sergeant of Arms tells you you're a bother?  No definition is provided.

The enemies of Utah gun owners (and all citizens) have overrun the capitol.  Politically uprooting and eliminating them will not happen there.

To put the brakes on gun control, the primary orchestrators and movers of it, house "speaker" Brad Wilson and senate "president" Stuart Adams, must begin to feel substantive political heat for their traitorous and contemptible behavior.  They must experience an united pro-RKBA community that doesn't fall for their treachery.

A political rebellion, from the grassroots up, must remove Wilson and Adams from their positions, and redistribute the powers of their positions so that one corrupt politician cannot dominate the entire process so completely.

To get there, neighborhoods must be organized by people like you for upcoming neighborhood partisan caucuses, gun owners like you must file to run for office, and a groundswell of discontent and anger must compel "Republicans" to stop being so "cozy" with rabid "Democrats."

Until sufficient political pain is applied, gun owners will continue to frantically run in circles and fall victim to the same tired and predictable games.  Go back through the early years of UT Gun Rights alerts, updates, and reports, and see for yourself.  Same games, different year.

To learn how you can start the process of holding the key perpetrators of gun control accountable, see UT Gun Rights' article, "What You Can Do."  The real work starts outside of the legislative session, away from Utah's corrupt capitol, and among the Citizens.

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