Experts concerned over rise in gun sales, domestic violence cases in Utah
FBI data shows that in 2018, approximately 300,000 Utahns applied for a new gun background check. By 2020, it was more than 1.2 million.
"Already in 2021, we are looking at about 422,000, and the year isn't even half over yet," said Sonia Solari, a professor at the University of Utah who's been researching the number of Utahns applying for gun background checks. "If you compare it to the other intermountain states, which you would also expect to see great rises, they don't have it the same way we do."