New Gun Store and ACTION ALERT in Simpsonville, SC

[John Canuck]

There is a new gun shop in Simpsonville. ACTION ALERT: City Council considering pro-gun change to ordinaces --> Link Removed

 

[John Canuck]

Done. 7-0 yeas-neas --> Link Removed

 

[AndeyHall]

Isn't there a section on SLEDs website under the gun laws saying that individual areas cannot pass ordinances related to guns that contradicts state law

Therefore the Anderson city ordinance stating that it is unlawful to discharge a firearm within city limits would bear no legal weight since there is no state law making that illegal?

 

[John Canuck]

I don't know what SLED has on their website, but it doesn't really matter. SC has preemption.

SECTION 23-31-510. Regulation of ownership, transfer, or possession of firearm or ammunition; discharge on landowner's own property.

No governing body of any county, municipality, or other political subdivision in the State may enact or promulgate any regulation or ordinance that regulates or attempts to regulate:

(1) the transfer, ownership, possession, carrying, or transportation of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms, or any combination of these things; or

(2) a landowner discharging a firearm on the landowner's property to protect the landowner's family, employees, the general public, or the landowner's property from animals that the landowner reasonably believes pose a direct threat or danger to the landowner's property, people on the landowner's property, or the general public. For purposes of this item, the landowner's property must be a parcel of land comprised of at least twenty-five contiguous acres. Any ordinance regulating the discharge of firearms that does not specifically provide for an exclusion pursuant to this item is unenforceable as it pertains to an incident described in this item; otherwise, the ordinance is enforceable.

HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 532, Section 2; 2008 Act No. 220, Section 1, eff May 21, 2008.

SECTION 23-31-520. Power to regulate public use of firearms; confiscation of firearms or ammunition.

This article does not affect the authority of any county, municipality, or political subdivision to regulate the careless or negligent discharge or public brandishment of firearms, nor does it prevent the regulation of public brandishment of firearms during the times of or a demonstrated potential for insurrection, invasions, riots, or natural disasters. This article denies any county, municipality, or political subdivision the power to confiscate a firearm or ammunition unless incident to an arrest.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t23c031.php

 

[AndeyHall]

I don't know what SLED has on their website, but it doesn't really matter. SC has preemption.



http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t23c031.php

Edit: scratch what I just said. I didn't read your entire post. My bad.