South Carolina Open Carry Still Alive?
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 6 months ago
News.
A small group of South Carolina senators approved a bill on Thursday that would allow licensed people to openly carry pistols and not hide them under a jacket.
The 3-2 vote along party lines kept alive hopes in 2021 that the Senate could pass the House-approved bill to allow so-called open carry of guns by people who already have a state-issued concealed weapons permit.
To have a chance to become a law this year, the bill would still have to make it through the full Senate Judiciary Committee and a Senate floor debate with just six days left in the session.
But maybe they stalled it the first time just long enough to prevent the full committee from hearing and passing it, and then the senate. This was a subcommittee.
What a ridiculous protocol. The bill could have just been sent to the floor of the senate when passed by the House. But that would have given South Carolina open carry, and that’s what they don’t want South Carolinians to have.
So they got what they were after. They played politics with God-given rights.
On April 30, 2021 at 6:10 pm, Geoff said:
This is like the 6th. or 7th. year they have managed to sidestep it by stalling. Heck, from now on I’m shopping in North Carolina where NO PERMIT is needed to Open Carry. I can do that because I live only a few miles from the border. Oh, and the sales tax is lower. I’ll still buy groceries in SC because there is no food tax like NC Counties have.