New Open Carry Bill for South Carolina
BY Herschel Smith
10 months, 3 weeks ago
We did open carry with a permit (if you recall, I listened to and reported on the entire floor debate in the S.C. senate that day). And I told you that we needed to embrace incrementalism. Now it’s time to do more.
A bill passed in the South Carolina Senate on Thursday would allow gun owners to carry their weapon in public without a concealed carry permit and would provide free firearms training.
The bill was approved by a 28-15 vote after nearly two weeks of debate surrounding concerns from some lawmakers and law enforcement officials over the open carry aspect. The addition of free firearms training is what led to a compromise and ultimately ended the debate.
The proposal now returns to the House, where representatives will need to agree to the Senate’s addition of the free firearms training, and other changes, in order for the bill to make it to Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk.
If signed into law, South Carolina will join 27 other states – including nearly every one in the Deep South – that allow open carry without a permit.
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Law enforcement leaders have expressed worry over people carrying guns without training or experience, and the possibility of encountering armed people at a shooting scene and not being able to determine who is a threat and who is trying to help.
Oh, you know law enforcement is going to be against it. When it came attached to a permitting scheme, they didn’t want to waste their power because they knew it was going to pass.
Now, they’re inveighing against it. I would suspect that SLED is especially against it, including that corrupt, awful head of SLED, Mark Keel, whom we’ve discussed at length.
On February 5, 2024 at 10:01 am, Drake said:
As a South Carolina tax-payer, I’ve got some mixed feelings about the “free” gun training idea.
On February 5, 2024 at 11:13 am, george 1 said:
There is currently a bill in Idaho that passed the House so far. It would allow teachers to carry in schools. The police and their unions, just as expected, are vociferously against the bill just as the Sun rises in the East.
It seems that most are not concerned with the fact that the “law enforcers” are near universally in favor of tyranny.
On February 5, 2024 at 1:09 pm, EdEarl said:
This part
Law enforcement leaders have expressed worry over people carrying guns without training or experience
From the voluminous vids on the interweb, spray and pray is the cop way.
Talk about people without training or experience!
On February 5, 2024 at 5:36 pm, Allen said:
Doesn’t the average cop only go to the range once a year?
On February 5, 2024 at 5:48 pm, Longbow said:
As David calls them, The Only Ones.
On February 11, 2024 at 11:14 am, dirtroads said:
Drake, I brought this fact up to a “republican” member of the legislature and his justification was that he “feels” providing “free” classes encourages people to get a CWP, and he “feels” that is a good thing. When challenged on the “free” aspect of it he could only reference his feels.
Appears we have a majority uniparty just wearing various name badges.