South Carolina: Columbia to Consider More Gun Control

Columbia has submitted a draft ordinance to Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office asking if it violates the state’s preemption law. The draft ordinance victimizes gun owners who have suffered the loss or theft of their property, if they fail to report a lost or stolen firearm within a certain period of time after discovering them missing. Nearby Virginia passed a similar law in 2020, which has not only been ineffective in hindering criminals, but has been almost unenforceable, as there have been just three civil penalties in the two years it has been in effect.