Posted on 03/12/2024 4:58:49 AM PDT by marktwain
The South Carolina legislature has approved the Constitutional Carry bill, H*3594, as recommended by the Conference Committee. The House approved the Conference report on March 5, 2024, with a vote of 86 to 33. The Senate approved the Conference report on March 6, 2024. The bill is expected to be sent to Governor McMasters in a few days.
The bill is close to what was passed by the Senate, according to the Greenville News:
Ultimately, the Senate version of the bill emerged mostly intact including the addition of enhanced penalties for repeat weapons offense violators. The committee also settled on places where guns may and may not be carried, the duty to report stolen weapons, and several provisions related to concealed weapons permits.
The members of the Senate appointed to the conference committee were Senator Brad Hutto (D) (Chairman), Senator Shane Massey (R) (majority leader of the Senate), and Senator Shane Martin (Senate sponsor of the bill). Senator Hutto had voted against the bill in the Senate. Senator Massey had opposed Constitutional Carry bills in the past. The three House members of the committee were the bill sponsor in the House, Representative Bobby J. Cox (R), Representative Micah Caskey (R), and Representative Justin Bamberg (D). All three representatives had voted for the House version of the bill.
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Excellent! Now we need to get Mark Robinson elected governor in North Carolina so we can pass it here too.
A few weeks back, I visited a company in SC that had prominent “No Guns Allowed on the Premises” signs. I was in the company of an Asian/Canadian who was flabbergasted that such a sign could exist.
The meaning to him was he was leaving a gun zone and headed to the relative safety of a gun free zone. He just couldn’t get over the fact there were such signs at the SC facility of his company.
The question in my mind is must the signs now be removed and guns allowed on the property by law?
After that the Constitutional Carry train will have stalled until we get a SCOTUS decision directing all states to observe Constitutional Carry.
Once Trump gets back in AND regains the Senate, keeps the House, there needs to be passed national Constitutional carry to step on states that plunder and steal away a citizens Constitutional 2nd amendment rights.
Kind of like when I was a kid.
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are possibilities, but they need conservatives governors to make it happen.
Just for giggles, I matched the states with Constitutional Carry (CC) to an Electoral Vote map. It is highly correlated.
Right now, it’s D - 282, R - 256.
Getting NC to move would make it R - 272, D - 266.
Caveat: That would include VT, NH, and ME as CC.
8. Private businesses – Private businesses have the right to prohibit firearms on their property by posting signs at entrances or through verbal notice given by an authorized person.
State Regs Today
Home to State Regulations and Laws
https://www.stateregstoday.com/politics/gun-control/gun-free-zones-in-south-carolina
Thanks for that
Not all sheriffs are good guys:
“I just said a prayer last night that I hope my greatest fears don’t come true, and that’s that South Carolina becomes the Wild, Wild West,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told The Post and Courier.
Richland County, a blue county, includes the state capitol Columbia.
I guess Massachusetts (aka: The Gay State) politicians learned nothing from the slapdown they received from SCOTUS a few years ago in "Caetano v Massachusetts". They voted 9-0 in favor of Caetano and in the ruling's narrative they described the state Supreme Court's reasoning in ruling that her 2nd Amendment rights had *not* been violated as "frivolous".
Lemme guess...a lot of people from New York...New Jersey...Connecticut...and Massachusetts...live in Richland County.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov, Henry McMaster held a ceremony Tuesday to spotlight a new law allowing any adult who can legally own a gun to carry the weapon openly without a permit.
McMaster signed the bill into law 12 days ago as soon as it hit his desk, allowing open carry before the ink had dried. Tuesday’s Statehouse event outside his office was a day to let everyone who pushed for the law to take a victory lap.
“This is a happy day. It’s a good step forward,” the Republican governor said.
The new law changes how police do their jobs. Guns can now be carried anywhere inside a vehicle — the dashboard, a seat, a cup holder, instead of it being required to be hidden in a console or glove compartment.
Officers can no longer stop someone who is just carrying a gun and anyone carrying a concealed weapon is no longer required to tell an officer they are armed.
https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-gun-law-open-carry-81a30d417b2e994f5b6e337bc4a33e92
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