SC: Open Carry Recalled from Judiciary; Full Senate Debate to Come Ammoland Inc. Posted on
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U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On 27 April, 2021, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee failed to vote on Open Carry with Training, HB3094. An activist had written, in 2018, the Judiciary committee is where gun reform bills go to die. He seemed to be prescient, from long experience.
Then the unexpected happened.
The Senate voted to recall HB3094 from the Judiciary committee. A recall vote for a bill is not common, but it happens.
This correspondent spoke with Senator Rex Rice, a strong proponent of Constitutional Carry in the South Carolina legislature. He had predicted the subcommittee would approve of HB3094, but if it did not, there would be a recall vote.
SC: Luke Rankin Schedules Senate Hearing for Open Carry with Training Ammoland Inc. Posted on
SC: Luke Rankin Schedules Senate Subcommittee Hearing for Open Carry with Training
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A breakthrough may be happening in South Carolina’s move to incrementally restore Second Amendment rights.
In past history, some Second Amendment supporters have seen the Senate Judiciary Committee as the place where the Senate leadership places bills to restore Second Amendment rights to die. The mechanism is simple. Do not schedule a hearing or a vote on such bills until it is too late to pass them in the legislature or to get them to the Governor for signature. Second Amendment activist, James Moffitt wrote, on 24 March, about the Senate Judiciary Committee: