No "trunk guns" on SC college campuses?

[TheLastBoyScout]

I heard rumors that the SC legislature passed a law to this effect following the VT shooting, but none of the rumors came with a source citation.

Since trunk guns are against cadet regulations, my firearms live off campus at an alum's house anyway, but I was still wondering if this was fact or bull.

 

[ScottsGT]

I work at USC, and as long as your vehicle is parked on University propery, you better not have a firearm in it. It is their property, you go by their rules.
Last year the legislature almost passed a bill allowing us to keep our guns locked in our vehicles on school property if we had a CWP, but since it was not the original intent of the bill, it was killed.
I wish they had passed it, since I cannot arm myself when I leave work and stop somewhere on the way home.

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

Dang that must have been the story I remember from last spring. I thought I'd heard good news on that front. I guess I just missed the part where the bill got killed.

 

[Avenger29]

Ah, ****. I better start leaving my 870 at home...

But, a whole lot of students at my university do keep guns in their cars...

I don't think that the campus cops really care to that effect...

 

[damien]

If you are not a student (get expelled) or a employee (get fired), what are they going to do to you (get yelled at?)?

 

[ny32182]

It was illegal long before VT shootings as far as I know.

If they find any firearms on campus, the owners will get arrested and charged with felonies. I have direct knowledge of it happening before.

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

Ah, ****. I better start leaving my 870 at home...

But, a whole lot of students at my university do keep guns in their cars...

I don't think that the campus cops really care to that effect...

If they expelled every cadet with a weapon in his vehicle, I think they could go from 5 battalions to 2 or 3. But since word on the street is its a felony in addition to a rule violation, there's no way I'd chance it.

 

[jr_roosa]

I just checked the law here in Colorado since I have bullseye pistol league Monday nights and had to be on campus all day (I'm a student).

Colorado has pretty unrestrictive gun laws (especially compared to my native NY), but it's a felony to have any firearm on any school property except in "cetrain circumstances" per the NRA website, which BTW you should check out...they have a condensed version of the state gun laws for each state.

University rules also DO NOT allow any firearms except for LEOs, competitions, or with written permission of the chancellor.

Getting tossed out of school 90% through an M.D. would be almost as devastating as a felony for me, and getting both would really suck, so no league for me this week.

-J.

 

[matt87]

About a month ago I walked across campus with a bolt-action in .308 under my arm in broad daylight... not a single problem, save one or two people not meeting my eye Amazing I could do that without breaking the law in the UK but you can't keep so much as a .22 in your trunk/boot over there!

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

Its all by state here.

Coming from PA I'm AMAZED at the strictness of laws down here. Supposedly the South is better for RKBA than the Northeast... Apparently Pennsylvania is the HUGE exception to that.

PA: Parents can gift me a sidearm at 18. I can then proceed to open carry it anywhere but Philadelphia city limits (though not always advisable). I can certainly go to the range with no issues.

SC: Having a sidearm at the range under age 21 would put me in hot water. Let alone having it in my car without a 21 year old.

PA: A LTCF is available to non-residents. It requires no training day, and is only slightly tougher to get than passing a NICS check in the first place.

SC: I need to transfer my state of residence to SC to even apply. I must pay a licence fee AND pay for a training session. The training session alone costs more than 2x as much as my PA LTCF, if I include the cost of ammo.

PA: I can keep firearms in the boot of my car as their primary storage location.

SC: Apparently not....

 

[ScottsGT]

PA: I can keep firearms in the boot of my car as their primary storage location.

SC: Apparently not....

Just on school property, or private property of an employeer if so stated. If you are at a mall parking or anywhere that is open to business or just driving around, you can legally keep a firearm in the trunk, or a handgun in the console or glovebox, without a CWP.

The training session alone costs more than 2x as much as my PA LTCF, if I include the cost of ammo.

Not true, you can find training sessions thru police departments that are free. I took mine thru the Columbia PD, all I had to pay for was ammo and gas to get there. Now it is a $50 fee for the CWP.

 

[ny32182]

You can keep a gun in your trunk, glove box, or console, loaded, chambered, with no CWP and no problem in SC.

CWP class; I took one that cost $130, which included the $50 application fee, so it was actually $80 for the class. They fill out and send in the application for you, and take your picture, and do your fingerprint cards for you, so...

130-50-cost of photo-cost of fingerprint cards = less than $80 for a day of instruction and elimination of all the paperwork hassle... I don't know how much cheaper you are expecting to get.

Unfortunately we've got our "gun free zones" like any other state; the two biggest pains in the ass in that department being school campuses and restaurants. Other than those two particular CWP restrictions, I'm pretty happy with the gun laws here.

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

My home county charges $27 for a License to Carry. $44 if I want it on DL-style plastic instead of paper.

That's how much cheaper I expect it to be.

Not to sound cocky, but I don't think I'd benefit much from a state mandated 1-day intro to pistols and lethal force law class... especially in a state I won't be staying in after graduation.

 

[ny32182]

I guess SC is just going to have to take you for an extra $6.

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

It's all academic until they legalize some way for me to get a permit without changing my DL to South Carolina.

$6 isn't that big of a deal, but I didn't know you could get trained for free.

 

[ny32182]

I believe there is a way to get a non-resident permit, but don't recall the details. It might be more involved than a resident permit (owning land or something). I've heard it mentioned before.

 

[TheLastBoyScout]

Only ways I've heard were:

1) Get a SC DL with your school address on it

or

2) Be active duty with orders to a base in SC