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Session 126 - (2025-2026)Printer Friendly
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Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines; define terms and include assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in list of banned items: h3180
Assault weapons; include assault weapons in statute, increase penalties for violation and create two-tiered penalty scheme; provide definitions and include assault weapons in list of banned weapons; other provisions: h3041
Background check; require national instant criminal background check before any sale, exchange or transfer or firearms; require checks at guns shows; provide procedures and other provisions: s0300, h3868
Concealable weapons permits; require permits to be automatically issued upon certain conditions; revise manner for out-of-state permits must be honored: s0168
Concealable weapons; provide public defender and assistant public defender investigators allowed to carry anywhere in SC under certain circumstances: h3794
Concealed weapons, retired officers; delete provisions that restrict the carrying of concealed weapons onto certain premises: s0386
Constitutional Carry/Second Amendment Preservation Act, repeal; provide language revert to previous language: s0145
County code enforcement officers; include animal control officers; authorize a county or municipality to allow class 3 animal control officers to carry firearms: h5091
Discharging firearm into a dwelling, structure, vehicle or equipment; expand purview to certain nonexclusive places and provide for life imprisonment without parole when bodily injury is suffered: h3040
Discharging firearm, violent crime; include offense of discharging firearm into dwelling, building,structure, enclosure, vehicle, aircraft, watercraft or other conveyance, device or equipment; create a tiered penalty structure: h3650
Disposition of case; require clerk of court, magistrate, municipal judges,and officers to report to SLED within 48 hours the issuance of order; require background check for gun transfer and other provisions: h3598
Firearm hold agreement; provide criminal and civil immunity to federal firearms licensees who possess another's firearms pursuant to a valid firearm hold agreement: s0129
Firearms; create offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm; establish penalties and other provisions: s0018, h3587
Foster parents; prohibit DSS and child-placing agencies from requiring foster parents to disclose information related to firearms in the home; create civil penalties; other provisions: h4623
Handguns
Constitutional Carry; provide state must dismiss select pending charges: s0138
Expungement, unlawful possession of handguns; provide state must dismiss certain pending charges that occurred prior to the Constitutional Carry Act; other provisions: S0136
Kingston Act; create offenses of unsecured firearm and unsupervised child firearm use; provide graduated penalties: h3596
Law enforcement, retired; delete provision restriction of carrying concealed weapons onto certain premises; provide SLED issue concealed weapons permits at no cost under certain circumstances; other provisions: h3159
Liability insurance; provide residents who possess or own a firearm shall obtain and carry liability insurance; provide proof of insurance must be shown upon demand of officer; provide penalties: s0141
Pardons; provide limited pardons to persons who have felony conviction not considered crimes of violence that would allow them to possess firearm for hunting only: h3143
Pointing a firearm at another person; remove provisions prohibiting the presentation of a firearm: h3748
Reckless endangerment; create offense and provide penalties; require bond be held in circuit court if offense committed by a person already out on bond; other provisions: s0117
Red Flags Act; provide for law enforcement to seize firearms and ammunition if person poses a risk of imminent personal injury to self or others; establish criteria and other provisions: s0007
SC Ban Against Red Flag Gun Confiscation Act; provide it is unlawful to adopt or enforce extreme risk protective orders and provide penalties: h3743
SC Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act: h4723
Sales tax exemption; provide for exemption during July 2025 for handguns, rifles, shotguns, and ammunition: h4092
Sales tax, exemptions; provide exemption for small arms and small arms ammunition: h3855
Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act; provide no government entity shall keep a record of privately owned firearms or owners; provide penalties: s0338, h3930
Terrorism; provide offense of furthering terrorism and penalties; create offense of material or financial support of act of terrorism and provide penalties; other provisions: h3532
Violent crime offenses; include discharging or causing discharge of firearm at or into a dwelling house, structure or enclosure regularly occupied by persons: h3053
Weapons on school property; delete restrictions placed on concealed weapons permit holder on postsecondary school properties or athletic events; other provisions: h3283
Wreckless endangerment; create offense, define terms, and provide penalty: h3056



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