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Subcommittee gives favorable report to Sen. Tedder bill to clear some unlawful-handgun charges
Summary
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee gave a favorable report to S.136, a bill tied to last year’s "constitutional carry" law that would require dismissal of certain unlawful-possession-of-handgun charges and bar those dismissals from serving as the basis for civil claims against officers or prosecutors.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted to give a favorable report to S.136, legislation tied to last year’s constitutional-carry changes that would require the state to dismiss pending unlawful-possession-of-handgun charges nullified by the South Carolina Constitutional Carry/Second Amendment Preservation Act of 2024 and bar using those dismissals as the basis for civil suits against law enforcement or prosecutors.
The bill’s sponsor previously shepherded the measure through the full Senate last…
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