Utah penalizes:

• Any person who purchases a firearm with the intent to resell or otherwise provide the firearm to a person ineligible to purchase it from a licensed dealer;¹

• A firearms dealer who fails to conduct the required background check on a purchaser;² and

• Any person who willfully and intentionally makes a false statement of the information required for a criminal background check.³

 In 2012, Utah enacted a law penalizing any person who:

• Knowingly solicits, persuades, encourages or entices a dealer or other person to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of a firearm under circumstances which the person knows would be a violation of the law; or

• Provides to a dealer or other person any information that the person knows to be “materially false information” with intent to deceive the dealer or other person about the legality of a sale, transfer or other disposition of a firearm. “Materially false information” means information that portrays an illegal transaction as legal or a legal transaction as illegal.⁴

Beginning on July 1, 2026, most law enforcement agencies must annually report to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice the following data for the previous calendar year:

• the number of firearms the law enforcement agency lawfully seized from restricted persons;

• the types of firearms the law enforcement agency lawfully seized from restricted persons; and

• information on where the restricted persons obtained the firearms seized by the law enforcement agency if the information is known or discoverable by the law enforcement agency.⁵

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1. Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-527(4)(a) and (b).[↩]
2. Utah Code Ann. §§ 76-10-526, 76-10-527.[↩]
3. Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-527.[↩]
4. Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-503(9).[↩]
5. Utah Code Ann. § 53-25-501.[↩]