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From execution to beach parking, where do key bills stand at the end of the regular session The South Carolina State House in Columbia. (Source: WCSC/WIS) By Adam Mintzer | May 13, 2021 at 7:44 PM EDT - Updated May 13 at 7:56 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina lawmakers are going home after the end of the regular session, but they are leaving some papers for the Governor.
As of Thursday evening, the legislators sent 49 bills to Gov. McMaster’s desk that he hasn’t signed yet in addition to the 49 bills, McMaster has already signed into law, according to the SC Legislative Services Agency.
I’m not a big fan of open carry for most things, but there are times when it makes perfect sense. Especially when you live in a state where open carry without a permit is legal, but you’re having to wait for a permit. I tend to believe that you’re better off carrying than not, even if you can only carry openly.
There are those who seem to think that because I’m not a fan of open carry, I’m somehow anti-open carry. That’s not true. I believe it should be an option for every law-abiding citizen, even if I don’t think it’s the best choice one can make.
SC politics briefing Zak Koeske, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
May 7 Welcome to your weekly South Carolina politics briefing, a newsletter curated by The State s politics and government team.
As legislative session winds down one week until sine die South Carolina is primed to expand state gun laws.
After a more than 12-hour debate, the Republican-controlled Senate Thursday voted mostly down party lines to pass a House-sponsored bill that would give concealed weapons permit holders the right to carry hand guns in the open.
The bill, which Senate Democrats criticized as a blatant ploy to assuage a minority of Republican voters, now returns to the House, which is likely to reject the Senate s changes, triggering a six-member joint panel to hammer out the differences.
COLUMBIA,S.C. (AP) — South Carolina senators debating a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on Wednesday rejected an attempt to get rid of