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Committee advances ordinance to bar firearm discharge within 500 feet of homes, schools in unincorporated Beaufort County
Summary
After residents described rifle fire near homes, the committee voted to forward a draft ordinance banning firearm discharge within 500 feet of residences, schools and parks in unincorporated Beaufort County for first reading and further review by full council.
Beaufort County’s Community Services committee voted to forward a draft ordinance to full council that would prohibit the discharge of firearms within 500 feet of residences, buildings, schools and parks in unincorporated parts of the county.
Mister Holbert, who drafted the ordinance using Charleston County language as a starting point, told the committee it was revised after consultation with the sheriff’s office and that 500 feet was chosen as a compromise between a more restrictive municipal model and an…
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