Return to main Utah Constitution page.
Legislative action that proposed this amendment: SJR3 1984 2nd Special Session
Disposition: This amendment took effect after voter ratification. Read the 1985 Utah Constitution or compare to 1983.
Amends article 1 section 6
1:6
The individual right of the people to keep and bear arms for security and defense of self, family, others, property, or the state, as well as for other lawful purposes shall not be infringed; but nothing herein shall prevent the legislature from defining the lawful use of arms.
[Supercedes SJR2 from the General Session, which had not yet been presented to voters for ratification when the Legislature proposed this replacement amendment.]
