Photo from South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster's office

South Carolina’s Republican Governor Henry McMaster signed House Bill 3094 on Friday while at a local shooting range.

The ceremonial signing and range day was a neat way to send off this major piece legislation as goes into law. The bill was passed in the South Carolina Senate 28-16 and the South Carolina House 83-34.

Politics and presentation aside, House Bill 3094 is not a Constitutional Carry measure but instead the bill is carry reform. Constitutional Carry means that residents of a state that has passed the measure are able to freely conceal carry their arms without the paperwork. What South Carolina’s carry reform legislation has done is it expands where those who have a CWP (conceal weapons permit) can carry and how those CWP holders can carry.

Previously residents of the state were able to get a CWP after paying a $50 application fee and taking an instructor led course, they would then be allowed to conceal carry in some areas of the state. Under the new law, residents of the state do not have to pay the $50 application fee in order to get the license and they are allowed to carry both open and conceal throughout most of the state, CWP applicants will still be required to take an instructor led course however.

As of December 31st 2020, there were as many as 418,828 South Carolina CWPs active, 35 states accept South Carolina CWPs in their own state.

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