Posted on 04/22/2021 5:53:43 AM PDT by marktwain
In South Carolina, both licensed open Carry and Constitutional Carry bills (H3094 and H3096) have passed the House and are sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee, waiting to be scheduled for a vote.
One Second Amendment activist, James Moffitt wrote, on 24 March, about the Senate Judiciary Committee:
This is typically where most 2A friendly bills go to die. Everyone reading this should be contacting the Senate Judiciary committee members now. I can guarantee you Moms Demand Action will be filling up their inboxes and flooding their voice mail. The time for action is NOW!!
The Judiciary Committee Chair is powerful Republican Senator Luke Rankin. Rankin has been in the South Carolina Senate since 1992. He was elected when he was 30 years old, a few years out of law school. He is a practicing attorney in the law firm, Rankin & Rankin, in Horry County, South Carolina. Rankin was a Democrat until 2004 when he switched to become a Republican.
He faced a primary challenge in 2020, It was a very close three-way race, where Rankin received 39%, his opponents received 35% and 26% of the vote, leading to a run-off election. Rankin won the run-off in a race with the extremely low turn-out, less than 11,000 votes, with 58% of the vote.
One news outlet wrote Rankin’s opponent in the run-off, John Gallman, had his divorce papers leaked to the media while Rankin’s divorce remained sealed.
In 2014, Senator Rankin was reported to vote against a Constitutional Carry bill in the Judiciary Committee.
In 2018, Senator Rankin removed an open carry bill from the Judiciary Committee agenda, effectively killing the bill.
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He has not been in favor of open carry or Constitutional Carry.
I’m from PA and praying for this bill to pass. I hate going to SC unarmed as they don’t reciprocate with our state and don’t accept my Utah license. Then we have to get PA to go constitutional carry to reciprocate as well.
I bet SC and PA get constitutional before TX.
TX needs to get with it, on permit-less OC.
Please SC - get er done!
No permit is needed for open carry in Utah, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, or Tennessee.
Utah, Iowa and Tennessee all passed Constitutional Carry in 2021.
Always suspicious of turncoats...
Yes but you need a license to transport your firearm and you can not carry in Philadelphia unless you have a license from a reciprocal state.
The only way to open carry in pa without a license it must not be transported in a vehicle and can’t be during a state of emergency.
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