Utah Firearm Laws

Firearms In Your Home

Utah allows individuals 18 or older who may lawfully possess firearms to have loaded firearms in their home, residence, and on their real property.

This includes rental homes, apartments, temporary residences, and camps.

Firearms At Home & On Your Property

Loaded Firearms At Your Residence

If you are at least 18 and legally allowed to possess firearms, you may have any lawfully owned firearm loaded and concealed at your home, residence, or on your real property without a concealed firearm permit.

Renters, Apartments & Leases

Loaded Firearms In Rental Homes

If you are 18 or older and legally allowed to possess firearms, your landlord cannot prohibit you from having a loaded firearm inside the residence you lawfully rent.

This applies to rented houses, apartments, condominiums, duplexes, and townhomes. No concealed firearm permit is required.

Rental Parking Areas

Apartments and shared parking areas: You may keep a firearm in your vehicle when it is secured out of sight in the locked vehicle or a locked container attached to it.

When parking restrictions are allowed: A landlord can restrict firearm storage in a parking area if free, safe alternative parking or secure, monitored firearm storage is available nearby.

Detached single-family rental homes: Landlords may establish parking restrictions because these properties are excluded from Utah's firearm parking protections.

Hotels, Motels & Temporary Residences

Temporary Residences & Camps

Individuals 18 or older who may legally possess firearms may have loaded firearms in a temporary residence or camp without a concealed firearm permit.

This includes a lawfully occupied hotel or motel room, tent, camper, trailer, or other temporary residence.

Innkeeper's Rights

A hotel, motel, inn, bed and breakfast, resort, or other lodging establishment may refuse accommodations to a person the innkeeper reasonably believes is bringing property dangerous to other people, including firearms or explosives.

A guest may also be removed for violating a lodging establishment rule that is posted conspicuously, when the legal requirements for removal are met.

Firearms In Homeless Shelters

What You Can Do

You may lawfully possess a loaded firearm on the grounds outside a government homeless shelter.

A state or local government cannot prohibit firearms on the outdoor grounds using the homeless shelter firearm restriction.

What You Cannot Do

PROHIBITED. You cannot bring a firearm inside a government homeless shelter that has established a firearm prohibition.

You must secure your firearm in the storage provided by the shelter before entering. The shelter must meet the entrance security and storage requirements listed below.

Requirements To Prohibit Firearms

A government shelter prohibiting firearms inside must:

Post signs: Display clearly visible firearm prohibition signs at every public entrance.
Detect firearms: Have a method of detecting firearms at every public entrance.
Staff entrances: Have a person physically present at each entrance while it is in use.
Provide secure storage: Store firearms securely while their owners are inside.
Protect firearm information: Do not photograph stored firearms, record serial numbers, or collect information about stored firearms.

Which Shelters Are Covered?

This law applies to permanent or temporary shelters owned or operated by a state or local government that can accommodate at least 10 individuals per night.

Government shelters housing people displaced by a disaster or state of emergency are not included in this definition.

Firearms Left In Storage

If you abandon your firearm in shelter storage for more than seven days, the shelter may transfer it to law enforcement for disposal.

Property Owner Liability & Protections

Private Property & Parking Area Liability

Private property: A property owner or lawful occupant who permits another person to legally bring a firearm onto the property is not civilly or criminally liable for harm caused by that person's firearm discharge.

This protection does not apply if the owner or occupant solicits, requests, commands, encourages, or intentionally helps cause an unlawful firearm discharge for a purpose other than lawful defense of someone on the property.

Parking areas: Owners and operators who comply with Utah's firearm parking requirements receive protection from civil liability for incidents involving firearm use in the parking area.

This parking protection does not apply when the firearm use involves a criminal act by the person owning or controlling the parking area.