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Travel

TSA at SLC airport confiscate 2 guns in 2 days

By Universe Contributor
October 28, 2021 12:00 AM
By Whitney Leland
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Nation

The 'scope' of the argument: Why the Second Amendment matters

By Nathan Wanlass
November 09, 2020 12:00 AM
The U.S. Constitution's guarantee of the right to bear arms has been a primary conversation topic among Americans in 2020. As uncertainty and fear have plagued the world over the last eight months, there has been a surge in gun sales nationwide — many of them to first-time owners.
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World

Shootings prompt other countries to warn about travel to US

By Associated Press
August 08, 2019 12:00 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States often takes a leading role in calling out the world's most dangerous places, warning its people about the risks of traveling to countries that are at war, under terrorist threats, experiencing civil unrest or displaying significant anti-American sentiment.
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State

Hate crimes, marriage and guns among new Utah laws in effect

By Associated Press
May 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Lawmakers passed 574 bills this year, setting a record. Most of those new laws will go into effect on Tuesday, May 14, 60 days after the end of the short legislative session. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Religion

Stories of the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack

By Associated Press
March 18, 2019 12:00 AM
A message card is placed at a collection of flowers left at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Saturday, March 16. New Zealand's stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighborhoods and around the country on Saturday, in a fierce determination to show kindness to a community in pain as a 28-year-old white supremacist stood silently before a judge, accused in mass shootings at two mosques that left dozens of people dead. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Metro

Concealed Carry Permit

By Universe Contributor
December 03, 2018 12:00 AM
The Armed Self Defense Institute holds concealed carry permit classes. 38 people attended the class in Payson on Tuesday night. Students in the class had positive outlooks about the instruction and information. Spencer Rands is the instructor of this class and provides all of the necessary steps to become a legal carrier.
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Local

Mom of Utah shooting victim: Gun owner should be prosecuted

By Associated Press
November 14, 2018 12:00 AM
A photograph of University of Utah student and track athlete Lauren McCluskey, who was fatally shot on campus is projected on the video board before the start of an NCAA college football game between Oregon and Utah Saturday Nov. 10, 2018, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Nation

The Latest: Widow of Pulse nightclub gunman acquitted

By Associated Press
March 30, 2018 12:00 AM
In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, artwork and signatures cover a fence around the Pulse nightclub, scene of a mass shooting, in Orlando, Fla. Jurors in the federal trial of Noor Salman, the Pulse nightclub gunman's widow, have gotten a look inside his Florida condo through crime scene photos taken as FBI agents searched the home. They also saw some of her husband Omar Mateen's web browsing history Tuesday, March 20, 2018, including beheading videos created by the Islamic State group Mateen had pledged allegiance to. Salman is accused of aiding and abetting her husband in the 2016 attack that left 49 people dead. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Nation

Things you should know today: 3/30/18

By Kaitlyn Bancroft
March 30, 2018 12:00 AM
The Latest: Widow of Pulse nightclub gunman acquitted
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Nation

Things you should know today: 2/28/18

February 28, 2018 12:00 AM
Florida students return to ‘picture of education in fear’
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Nation

Florida students return to 'picture of education in fear'

By Associated Press
February 28, 2018 12:00 AM
Police walk outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. Students returned to class for the first time since a former student opened fire there with an assault weapon. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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Nation

Dick's cuts off sales of assault-style rifles in stores

By Associated Press
February 28, 2018 12:00 AM
This photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, shows a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Miami. Dick's Sporting Goods announced Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, that it will immediately end sales of assault-style rifles and high capacity magazines at all of its stores and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21 years old. The announcement comes two weeks after the school massacre in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Nation

Shooter caught at US Capitol, injuries unclear

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Law Enforcement and rescue vehicles are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2016, after a U.S. Capitol Police officer was shot at the Capitol Visitor Center complex, and the shooter was taken into custody. (Associated Press)
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World

Ivory Coast: Extremists kill 14 civilians, 2 special forces

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 14, 2016 12:00 AM
Security forces gather around the scene were gunmen attacked people in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast. (Associated Press)
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Nation

Gunmen, 1 with rifle, worked as team to kill 5 at cookout

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 10, 2016 12:00 AM
A woman reacts at the scene of a deadly shooting in Wilkinsburg, Pa., Thursday, March 10, 2016. Police say multiple people were killed in the shooting late Wednesday and several were injured in suburban Pittsburgh. (Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Campus Events

Douglas M. Johnson addresses students on defusing religious extremism

By Isaac Wright
February 24, 2016 12:00 AM
Douglas M. Johnson spoke on the importance of countering violent religious extremism with faith. 'When we as a country have been confronted with religious extremism, our response is usually military in nature. Our response needs to be a response to the ideas behind the guns,' Johnson said. (Natalie Bothwell)
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Nation

Update: Last of Oregon refuge occupiers surrenders

February 11, 2016 12:00 AM
The last four armed occupiers of the national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon said they would turn themselves in Thursday morning, after law officers surrounded them in a tense standoff. (Associated Press)
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Local

Lawmakers open 2016 version of Utah's grand exercise in democracy

By Ryan Morgan
January 25, 2016 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's House speaker told representatives to focus on political courage and cooperation as they and their Senate colleagues opened the 45-day legislative session on Utah's Capitol with pomp and speech making.
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