Posted on 06/04/2016 3:39:21 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
COLUMBIA — Statehouse lawmakers will be in session less time in 2017 and Georgia gun permit holders can now carry their weapons in South Carolina after Gov. Nikki Haley on Friday signed dozens of bills passed by the General Assembly into law.
After about 20 years on the table, lawmakers this year voted to shorten the legislative session by three or four weeks, depending on how the calendar falls.
Legislators will head home on the second Thursday in May, instead of the first Thursday in June, beginning next year.
In 2018 and some other years ahead, the session would be four weeks shorter. The move will save the state $86,000 each week that legislators do not meet.
Haley also signed a hotly debated law that allows Georgia residents with concealed weapons permits to legally carry their guns in South Carolina.
Georgia did not recognize South Carolina’s permits, but that state’s law is written in a way that allows for automatic recognition of any state that recognize Georgia’s permits. So South Carolinians with permits are now able to carry their guns into Georgia.
Well, this changes things quite a bit. Many were going to FLA to get their permit.
She like Martinez and Sandoval has still not endorsed Trump.
The national office holder Dems back their Puke Hillary, GOP office holdouts undermine Trump.
We will remember you at the ballot box
Well, she’s a bit smarter than Georgia’s Nathan Deal.
Guess no Trump rallies there.
GA FReeper ping. Good news here for me, we visit friends that have a place in Beaufort a couple times a year.
Good news for us in case we decide to cross the state line.
Yay!
Not much. She blamed a flag for murders in Charleston.
Now...can I carry my S.C. permit into Georgia?
No not at present. I think that will change shortly since SC is now willing to reciprocate. We currently reciprocate with all other contiguous states except SC.
A start. Now how about recognizing the rest of the states. Until SC does it is off my travel list.
My son lives there and I'm in Mississippi - irks me that SC is a place I can't be "legal".
Georgia has passed a law that gives reciprocity to any state that recognizes their CCW.
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