It is LEGAL to have a loaded firearm in your residence and on your real property. This includes any temporary residence, such as a hotel, motel, camp, tent, trailer, etc.

If you sign a lease agreement or other document with the landlord (owner of the property) to rent or lease an apartment, condominium, duplex, townhome, etc., they cannot restrict you from having a firearm in your home. However, they can prohibit firearms in vehicles on their property. If you violate the policy, they can legally evict you.

Protections:

Property Owner Exempt From Civil and Criminally Liability
A person who allows an individual who is legally allowed to possess a firearm to bring the firearm onto the owner’s property is not civilly or criminally liable for any damage or harm resulting from the discharge of the firearm while on the owner’s property.

A person who owns or controls a parking area that follows the “parking lot law” is not liable in any civil action for any occurrence resulting from, connected with, or incidental to the use of a firearm, by any person, unless the use of the firearm involves a criminal act by the person who owns or controls the parking area.

Restrictions:

Homeless Shelters

It is ILLEGAL to carry a firearm into a homeless shelter, as described in 53-5a-103.5, if a local or state government entity exercises authority over it, but they may not prohibit the possession of a firearm on the grounds outside of a homeless shelter.

If a local or state governmental entity prohibits the possession of a firearm, it must:

  • Display readily visible signage at all public entrances of the homeless shelter indicating that firearms are not permitted inside the homeless shelter.
  • Provide a means of detecting a firearm at all public entrances to the homeless shelter.
  • Ensure an individual is physically present at a public entrance to the homeless shelter when the public entrance to the homeless shelter is in use.
  • Provide secure storage for a firearm while an individual is inside the homeless shelter
  • Prohibit the collection of information about a firearm that is stored at the homeless shelter, including taking a photograph of the firearm or recording the serial number of the firearm.
  • A stored firearm in a homeless shelter that is abandoned for more than seven days by the owner of the firearm may be relinquished by the homeless shelter to a law enforcement agency for disposal.

Innkeeper’s Rights

If you rent a room at a bed and breakfast, boarding house, hotel, inn, lodging house, motel, resort, or rooming house, the innkeeper can refuse or deny accommodations, facilities, or privileges to any person who is in the reasonable belief of the innkeeper, bringing in property that may be dangerous to other persons, including firearms or explosives.

Laws

  • 29-2-102. Definitions. (Innkeeper, hotel, inn, etc.)
  • 29-2-103. Innkeeper’s rights — Liability — Prohibition on discrimination.
  • 34-45-104. Protection from liability. (Parking areas)
  • 53-5a-102.3. Possession of a firearm at a residence or on real property.
  • 53-5a-103. Discharge of firearm on private property — Liability.
  • 53-5a-103.5.  Firearm regulation in homeless shelters.
  • 76-11-217.  Carrying a dangerous weapon while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
  • 76-11-219. Trespass with a firearm in a house of worship or a private residence.