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Tomorrow, the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee will hear House Bill 133, modeled after Bloomberg-style gun control pushed at both the state and federal level, to criminalize private transfers absent the involvement of a licensed firearms dealer.
After hours of discussion, presentation and heart-wrenching testimony, a bill that would have repealed Utah's death penalty failed to move forward from committee on Monday night.