Posted on 05/09/2021 4:32:10 AM PDT by marktwain
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On 27 April, 2021, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee failed to vote on Open Carry with Training, HB3094. An activist had written, in 2018, the Judiciary committee is where gun reform bills go to die. He seemed to be prescient, from long experience.
The Senate voted to recall HB3094 from the Judiciary committee. A recall vote for a bill is not common, but it happens.
This correspondent spoke with Senator Rex Rice, a strong proponent of Constitutional Carry in the South Carolina legislature. He had predicted the subcommittee would approve of HB3094, but if it did not, there would be a recall vote.
Senator Rice was the Republican who had won the primary against Senator Larry Martin, the Republican who previously Chaired the Judiciary committee after Senator Martin had made some less than judicious remarks denigrating open carry. The primary happened in 2016. Senator Rice won by a few hundred votes. From an article by this correspondent in 2015:
He had this to say, according to WLTX:
“You can carry a weapon openly if this bill is adopted and I’m offended by that,” said committee chair Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens).
The recall vote was a very strong 27 for and 12 against, with 1 not voting. There are 40 South Carolina senators.
This correspondent asked Senator Rice, with more than a two-thirds vote to recall the bill, wasn’t the passage of the bill almost certain?
The answer showed how complex political maneuvering can be. Senator Rice said about half of those voting to recall the bill were serious proponents of Constitutional Carry. They had told the other half, if they did not obtain something this session, the others would not obtain anything they wanted to pass, either.
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The clock is ticking for the end of the session.
Would be nice. Being from PA I’d love to carry in SC.
Living in the Land of Peasant Living, I’d like to carry, period.
Larry Martin appears to need primarying.
Er, *needed* primarying. :P
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