Posted on 03/07/2024 4:09:55 AM PST by CFW
Palmetto State lawmakers officially became the latest to do away with permitting requirements for public gun-carry.
The South Carolina Senate passed H. 3594 by a 28-18 vote on Wednesday. The measure will allow adults eligible to own a handgun to carry it in public, openly or concealed, without a permit. It now heads to the desk of Governor Henry McMaster (R.), who has pledged to sign it into law.
The bill’s passage clears the way for South Carolina to become the 29th state to adopt permitless carry and the 27th since 2010, in what has arguably been the most successful policy push of the modern American gun-rights movement. At the same time, South Carolina is the sole remaining trifecta Republican state without permitless carry, suggesting the policy’s rapid growth could soon be stunted for the foreseeable future.
South Carolina’s status as the lone trifecta Republican holdout among permitless carry states was not for lack of trying by advocates. A permitless carry bill cleared the state’s House in three previous legislative sessions but never cleared the state Senate during that time despite Republicans controlling both chambers.
Policy differences between the two legislative bodies nearly derailed this year’s permitless carry effort as well. While both chambers passed a version of the policy, lawmakers in the state Senate attached amendments creating stiffer penalties for illegal gun possession and designating new sensitive places off-limits to gun carriers in order to get more moderate and swing-district senators on board. The Senate version also included exemptions from the sensitive place restrictions for sitting lawmakers and optional state-financed training courses for prospective gun carriers.
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I'm beginning to think the media has been lying when they say Second Amendment supporters want more gun laws and tighter carry restrictions.
Are these Constitutional carry laws only for residents of the state or can travelers also carry without a permit that has reciprocity?
Good on my home state of Louisiana (I now live in Texas). Which state is the likely No.30?
GREAT!
That’s what I want to know as well. I would assume “constitutional carry” means just that but we’ll find out for sure, soon. If this is the case, I’ll vacation there again instead of the OBX.
Related article:
“Americans Not Buying Gun Control. Instead, They’re Buying Guns.”
It wasn’t all that long ago that I couldn’t go from GA to Hilton Head or Beaufort to visit without violating the law carrying in my car, let alone carrying on my person while walking down the street. They had no reciprocity with GA for the longest time. Which was absurd, we’re half their tourism/visitor economy in many parts of the state.
Glad to see they’ve come to their senses.
“Are these Constitutional carry laws only for residents of the state or can travelers also carry without a permit that has reciprocity?”
I’m not sure how reciprocity will work with the new laws on Constitutional carry. Previously, those states recognized concealed carry permits of other states. So, if both your resident state and your destination state both have permit-less carry, I would think as a visitor you would carry that right with you (which in a just world that would be the law of the land—since rights belong to you and not to the state).
If you are a law-abiding citizen and allowed to carry a firearm without a permit in your on state of residence, then another state with permit-less carry would also let you carry when visiting their state as well. It only makes sense, but double-check before you travel and get something in writing.
I assume some states may have to rewrite their reciprocity laws or at least provide some official guidance on the issue.
Excellent! Now to elect Mark Robinson as Governor in North Carolina this Fall and get Constitutional Carry in this state too. Republicans already hold a supermajority in both houses of the state legislature.
North Carolina is likely next. The only stumbling block currently is our outgoing idiot Governor.
These States still issue permits for reciprocity purposes.
Title XVII, Section 1702, of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-647), the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, makes it illegal for any individual to knowingly possess a firearm in a school zone, which encompasses a distance of 1,000 feet from school grounds.
Umm, US V. Lopez struck that “law” down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lopez
Some states have passed similar laws.
It’s actually more complicated and technically the law is still in effect
I know some states offer protections and the feds now allow some narrow exceptions
Fact is the fed gov shouldn’t be involved at all and this “law” should be removed entirely
YES!!!!!
I, sadly, know someone part of a group opposing that. However, I have to admit I enjoy seeing the defeat of that group.
Now, if only NC would go constitutional carry.
NC and SC would fit together like a hand and glove.
I saw and heard the man who is the apparent new governor of NC last night. Something is going to happen when he is elected.
I feel better now for the well being of my grand child who lives there.
Yup...I am thinking I need a couple more...
Ah...the same was true for Louisiana. There is hope...
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