Carrying a firearm in Utah
What state law requires, and what federal law adds on top of it. Every fact below shows where it came from and how far we have verified it.
Check a specific address on the map →- Permit required to carry concealed
- No — Utah allows permitless carry from age 21.
- Duty to inform law enforcement
- Not yet established for this state.
- Permits Utah recognises
- We have not yet ingested Utah's published recognition list. That is a gap in our data, not a statement that it recognises nothing.
- Restricted areas mapped in this state
- Federal school zones (1,000 ft)1,260
- Military installations9
- Tribal areas7
The federal layer applies regardless
Federal law bars possession within 1,000 ft of a school, and the exemption requires a licence issued by the state the school sits in — a permit Utah merely honours through reciprocity does not satisfy it. Carrying permitlessly satisfies it even less, because there is no licence at all. This is the trap that catches travellers who correctly concluded their permit was good here.
18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(2)
Sources and how far we have verified them
- permitless_carry·Utah Code § 53-5a-102.2Aggregated source — not yet verified against the statute · in force from 2021-05-05