{"id":2505,"date":"2024-03-06T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scsenategop.com\/2024\/04\/15\/senate-republicans-deliver-victory-on-constitutional-carry-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:49:08","slug":"senate-republicans-pass-strong-constitutional-carry-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scsenategop.com\/2024\/03\/06\/senate-republicans-pass-strong-constitutional-carry-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE: Senate Republicans Pass Strong Constitutional Carry Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/strong>March 6, 2024<\/p>\n SENATE REPUBLICANS PASS STRONG CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY BILL<\/strong><\/p>\n COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2014 On Wednesday, Senate Republicans passed a strong Constitutional Carry bill and delivered a major second-amendment victory for South Carolina. This tough-on-crime bill incorporated language adopted by a conference of Senate and House members and supported by Republicans in both chambers.<\/p>\n The Constitutional Carry Act of 2024 ensures law-abiding citizens are able to exercise their second amendment rights, cracks down on criminals in possession of firearms, and makes training more accessible to South Carolinians. <\/p>\n \u201cMy decade-long fight to enable responsible gun owners to carry a firearm without asking permission from the government concluded in a resounding victory today,\u201d said Senator Shane Martin from Spartanburg. \u201cSoon, freedom-loving South Carolinians will wake up to a new era of expanded second-amendment rights in the 29th Constitutional Carry state in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite lies and pressure from out-of-state \u201cgun rights\u201d groups taking aim at Senate Republicans, we stood our ground and delivered results.<\/p>\n The bill heads to the Governor\u2019s desk for his signature.<\/p>\n ###<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2024 SENATE REPUBLICANS PASS STRONG CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY BILL COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2014 On Wednesday, Senate Republicans passed a strong Constitutional Carry bill and delivered a major second-amendment victory for South Carolina. This tough-on-crime bill incorporated language adopted by a conference of Senate and House members and supported by Republicans in both…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,23,24],"tags":[186,184,183,180,189,187,31,179,176,185,15,170,188,34,68,178],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n