'Constitutional carry' bill fails in Senate Judiciary Committee

A bill that would have allowed citizens to engage in what gun rights activists are calling 'Constitutional carry' has failed to garner enough votes to move from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor for a vote in the S.C. legislature.

State Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, had first introduced the bill in 2013 and would have allowed residents in South Carolina to carry firearms either openly or concealed without state permits.

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