Republican SC senators vote to make it harder for feds to seize guns Joseph Bustos, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Apr. 28—COLUMBIA, S.C. — Some state lawmakers want to prevent state and local law enforcement agencies from enforcing federal gun seizure laws. On Tuesday, state senators approved what's called a budget proviso — a one-year law tacked on to the state budget — that would prevent law enforcement agencies that receive state or local dollars from enforcing federal laws, regulations and executive orders that come into effect this calendar year if those rules require seizure of a gun or firearm parts solely because of the classification of the weapon.