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Utah Gun Shop Stores Firearms, Hosts Veteran Nights Post-Suicide

6/29/2026

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Jamie Buttars, a Logan, Utah shop owner, began storing firearms, installing 44 safes after a friend’s suicide and now hosts veteran game nights.
Dr. Eric Monson of University of Utah said men are four times as likely as women to die by suicide and less than half receive treatment.
The Huntsman Mental Health Institute offers suicide-prevention, crisis, therapy and provides crisis-line information—including 988 and the Utah Warm Line (1-833-SPEAKUT)—via LiveOnUtah.org.

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Jamie Buttars, a Logan, Utah shop owner, began storing firearms, installing 44 safes after a friend’s suicide and now hosts veteran game nights.
Dr. Eric Monson of University of Utah said men are four times as likely as women to die by suicide and less than half receive treatment.
The Huntsman Mental Health Institute offers suicide-prevention, crisis, therapy and provides crisis-line information—including 988 and the Utah Warm Line (1-833-SPEAKUT)—via LiveOnUtah.org.