Merrill Cook on Gun Control Former Republican Representative (UT-2)

Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1.

Individual right to self-defense at home and as self-defense.

Declares that a person not prohibited under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act from receiving a firearm shall have the right to obtain firearms for security and to use firearms in defense of:

1. self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury;
2. self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and
3. the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person.