SC State House Bill 3094 becomes law (open carry with training)

[69hurstolds]

Agree or disagree, but within 3 months, open carry law (with training) in SC will become a reality after years of debating and hand-wringing. The "good" thing, IMO, is they didn't get straight-up constitutional carry. While I'm a firm believer in the U.S. Constitution, I also believe when it comes to firearms and playing with stuff that can give someone the ability to kill others instantly that you should at least have some minimal gun safety training in order to carry a gun around with you. Responsible gun ownership hasn't gone out the window here.

And the icing on the cake is now the CWP is FREE (used to be $50) because the office of SC attorney general/asst. attorney general will be in charge of issuing them instead of law enforcement.

One neat part of the law basically makes SC a 2A sanctuary state.

BY ADDING SECTION 23-31-250 SO AS TO PROVIDE THE STATE AND ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS CAN NOT BE COMPELLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT OR ENFORCE A LAW RELATED TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS THAT LIMITS OR PROSCRIBES CARRYING CONCEALABLE WEAPONS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES

This basically means that SC will flip the bird to any federal overreach when it comes to any attempt to infringe on an individual rights under the 2A. It would need to be legally challenged, not overrun.

This is about the Constitutional right for an individual to keep and bear arms and the win that SC finally got to have a more sensible open carry law. No more potential flaps over a shirt accidently popping up when you sit down exposing your concealed weapon causing you to "violate" your permit, etc., etc.

 

[abbey castro]

So?

 

[69hurstolds]

So?

Exactly

 

[abbey castro]

Exactly

Pulling your chain. We just got the open carry without a license here in TX. Why do I have to have a license to drive a car, fish. hunt or get married?

 

[Jakefromstatefarm]

Pulling your chain. We just got the open carry without a license here in TX. Why do I have to have a license to drive a car, fish. hunt or get married?

Self protection is a right granted from the creator. There should be no limitations on that IMO and the opinions of the writers of the bill of rights... But I will digress.

Cars, hunting, fishing, marriage are things the government allows if you want to pay the extortion... I mean fee, ugh, tax.

 

[69hurstolds]

There's a good answer for all that, but it can't be discussed here. Driving, fishing, hunting and getting married aren't considered federal constitutional rights, I suppose, and can be regulated easier. Unless they fixed it, and contrary to popular backwoods belief, SC marriage laws ban marriage to family members- but strangely, it somehow excluded grandmothers from the banned list. WTF.

The original plan here was an uphill push for constitutional carry, aka permitless carry, to which, everyone knows there's a few people they likely know even in their close circles, probably shouldn't even hold a weapon, let alone be able to carry one. To tell the truth I'm somewhat surprised they were able to get something that made some sense across the finish line here. I mean, you still can't be stupid with it, but protecting yourself will become a tad easier, not to mention cheaper.

 

[Jakefromstatefarm]

So if someone wanted to marry their grandmother, they would just need to travel to SC?... I thought Kansas had some jacked up regs.... Lol.

I would agree, there are probably people that shouldn't handle firearms, but I also choose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

 

[ck80]

So if someone wanted to marry their grandmother, they would just need to travel to SC?... I thought Kansas had some jacked up regs.... Lol.

I would agree, there are probably people that shouldn't handle firearms, but I also choose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

It's not just SC... and we'll hold all the bama jokes aside for now.

In Georgia, first cousin? A.O.K. marry and do anything else to your hearts content.

If you're really curious it's 19-3-3 that covers it, but, basically all that's banned is between:

FATHER - daughter or stepdaughter

MOTHER - son or stepson

SIBLINGS - whole or half blood. (Stepsiblings A.O.K. )

GRANDPARENT- grandchild

AUNT - nephew

UNCLE - niece

Now here's a thought for the progressives... all those what do they call them, the ones who say they don't have a gender?

Also, in the case of gay "marriages" not sure if anything was ever enacted to update those incestuous prohibitions. Not aware of it having been done.

Want to marry a great grand parent? Or a great uncle? Doesn't seem to be an issue either.

 

[69hurstolds]

Probably best if we didn't stray too far from the main topic here...

(read this as don't f*ck up my thread with political leanings and get my thread locked please)