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Weapons ordinance affecting Green Canyon and surrounding areas By
Holli Gunnell
Members of the North Logan City Council have expressed a desire to inform Utah State University students of the changes to the weapons ordinance affecting Green Canyon and surrounding areas, including adding paintball guns to the list of illegal low-force weapons. "It would be beneficial for [USU] students to know about the addition of paintball guns to the ordinance," said Nancy Potter council member who oversees the Youth Council. Additions to the ordinance were made over the last month to clarify what weapons are considered firearms and low-force weapons. There were also clarifications made regarding punishments for violations and exceptions to the rules. According to a document issued to members of the council from the Forest Supervisor of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Logan Ranger District, there are two main violations and several exemptions in the Weapons Ordinance for the area including and surrounding Green Canyon. The first is discharging a firearm, air rifle, or gas gun. The second is building, maintaining, or using an open fire. The ordinance defines a firearm as, "pistol, revolver, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, rifle or sawed-off rifle, or any device that could be used as a dangerous weapon which is expelled at a projectile by action of an explosive." It defines low-force weapons as, "objects other than firearms which can be used to throw projectiles with considerable force but typically not with deadly force. Includes but not necessarily limited to BB-guns, air powered rifles, pellet guns, paintball guns, pouch-slings, slingshots, wrist rockets, and bows of 40 pounds draw or under and/or any device which could be used as a weapon from which is expelled a projectile be a force other than explosives but not with deadly force." As stated in the ordinance, violations may lead to fines up to $5,000 or up to six months in jail. Exceptions to the violations would go to hunters with a valid license hunting between the areas of 1800 and 2000 East. The ordinance stresses that it is illegal to use any low-force weapon in an "unsafe and careless manner" towards buildings, people or pets. It also states that children under 12 must have an adult with them when in the presence of low-force weapons.
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