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Utah K-12 Schools Can Now Apply for AI Gun Detection

By Giovanni Radtke, News Writer March 2, 2024

  The Utah State Board of Education has sent grant applications for artificial intelligence gun detection to K-12 schools throughout the state.  Rhett Larsen, Utah State Board of Education...

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The History of Utah’s Efforts to Enact Gun Control Legislation

By Caelan Roberts, News Editor June 7, 2023

  Firearms have been a source of debate in the United States for decades due to the abnormally high amount of gun violence in the country. Recently, the New York Times reported guns surpassed car...

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U Student Victims of Gun Violence and the Impact of their Deaths

By Haley Utendorfer, News Writer November 17, 2021

  In the past five years, six University of Utah students have been killed: ChenWei Guo, Lauren McCluskey, Sarah Hawley, Mackenzie Lueck, Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe. Five of these deaths were directly...

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U Students Express Opinions about Guns on Campus

By Kailey Gilbert, News Writer October 6, 2021

  On Feb. 12, 2021, Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 60, allowing for concealed carry of guns without a permit. Utah is now the 17th State to allow for constitutional carry. This means that “an...

U Professors Research Suggests that Preventive Methods can Save Lives of Military Personnel

U Professor’s Research Suggests that Preventive Methods can Save Lives of Military Personnel

By Jacob Rueda August 24, 2019

A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed that a number of military personnel with suicidal tendencies are at greater risk of self-harm because they keep firearms...

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Starr: The Legislature Should Increase the Consequences for Firearm Serial Number Violations

By Kennedie Starr, Opinion Writer July 18, 2019

  Last month, Utah state legislators and stakeholders held this year’s first meeting of the Criminal Code Evaluation Task Force. The purpose of this group is to study and make recommended changes...