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:
This is typically where most 2A friendly bills go to die. Everyone reading this should be contacting the Senate Judiciary committee members now. I can guarantee you Moms Demand Action will be filling up their inboxes and flooding their voice mail. The time for action is NOW!!
Senatore Luke Rankin took over the chairmanship of the Judiciary committee in 2017.
Larry A. Martin was chair of the Judiciary committee from 2011 to 2016. Martin was credited with killing Constitutional Carry, because it authorized open carry, in 2014. From an article by this correspondent:
Senator Larry Martin is credited with killing S115 in South Carolina last year. He had this to say, according to WLTX:
“You can carry a weapon openly if this bill is adopted and I’m offended by that,” said committee chair Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens).
Senator Larry Martin was defeated in a Republican primary in 2016 by Rex Rice. Senator Rice was on a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in 2018. S 0449 was the Constitutional Carry Bill in play in 2018. The bill was heard in the subcommittee, then it died. The 2018 subcommittee had Senators Malloy (ch), Fanning, Goldfinch, Rice, and Senn as members.
Senator Rice had been a primary sponsor of S 0449
Chairman Rankin had not scheduled a hearing for either the open carry with training bill, H3094 or the Constitutional Carry bill, H 3096, as of 23 April, 2021. That has changed. A subcommittee has been scheduled on H3094 (open carry with training) for a hearing on the 27th of April. The subcommittee is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m.The subcommittee can kill the bill or keep it alive. From scstatehouse.gov:
Tuesday, April 279:30 am -- Gressette Room 105 -- Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on H.3094
(Contact Info: 803-212-6627)REVISIONS: Meeting added with agenda in PDF format on 04/23/2021 at 11:15 am
Scheduled for Live Broadcast on 04/23/2021 at 11:20 am
In 2021, the subcommittee members have changed to Young (ch), Malloy, Massey, Kimpson, Garrett. Without detailed knowledge of the internal politics of the Senate Republicans and the Judiciary committee, it is hard to know what this portends.
Bills that restore Second Amendment rights are often opposed by establishment politicians. All the tools of legislative procedure are used to kill bills without showing the responsibility for doing so.
The responsibility for H3094 and H3096 rests squarely with Senator Luke Rankin. His past history indicates he may pass open carry with training, and may kill Constitutional carry. A third option would be to pass open carry with training this year and hold Constitutional Carry to await developments in 2022.
The hearing on H3094 will tell us much about whether the bill has a chance of passing this year. There is limited time in each session. The longer a bill sits without passage, the less likely is passage.
Second Amendment Supporters are lobbying for support of H3094 in the Senate sub-committee.
South Carolina is one of only five states that ban the open carry of handguns in public places. It is worthwhile for the Second Amendment supporters to reduce that number to four. A ban on open carry is an outlier in the history of gun laws.
South Carolina does not appear to have instituted the ban on both open and concealed carry until 1962.
Earlier South Carolina banned slaves "going armed" with any weapon (1855), and restricted handgun sales to law enforcement (1902).
Update: the Judiciary subcommittee failed to vote on HB3094. This delay, in effect, is a move to kill the bill.
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Do it quickly before Joe Biden and crew eliminates 2A.
To commenter number one: there will never be enough gun grabbing morons to eliminate the second amendment. The solution to the sanctity of the second amendment is voting out the morons and voting in the gun rights supporters. until recently we got the government we voted for, maybe after all of the state voting audits we will have the correct government we actually voted for. Trump 2021 (August). And hope Pence resigns. Then the house Republican majority leader could become Vice president. Nancy boobs would not be House majority leader Speaker. We are currently waiting on the USSC to live up to their constitutional oath. Tell me where in the Constitution it says USSC justices are life time appointments? What the Constitution actually says is that any government official elected or appointed can be impeached. Further it says justices will serve during good behavior. No government official is appointed for a life time. If you call your self an American start actually reading our federal constitution. It never hurts to do some research. If intelligent Americans would do a little research they might learn that an oxygen molecule is three times larger than the corona virus and there is no mask made that will filter out a virus that is three times smaller than the air passing through it How many people do you see with their nose above the mask? normal breathing is in through the nose and out through the mouth. The nose function is to humidify the air to prevent drying of the lungs. I worked directly with viral and bacterial infections for over 20 years. There is no mask made that will filter out a virus if air can pass through it. The corona virus attacks the immune system, prevent infection by boosting the immune system with the known proper virus killing vitamins. A vaccine has never been needed. Vitamin C-D and Zinc.
The constitutional fact is the second amendment has no requirement for training either.
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