South Carolina

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South Carolina

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to South Carolina. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial period through statehood to the present.

Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, militia and frontier records, coastal and port archives (e.g., Charleston), manufacturing and agricultural collections, and oral histories tied to South Carolina people and places.
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1899 S.C. Acts 97
(1899)
No. 67, § 1: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That any person who shall engage in any boisterous conduct, under the influence of intoxicating liquors, or while feigning to be under the influence of such liquors, or without just cause or excuse, shall discharge any gun, pistol or other firearms while upon or within fifty yards of any public road, except upon his own premises, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days.
1897 S.C. Acts 423
(1897)
No. 251, § 1: Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, dirk, dagger, slingshot, metal knuckles, razor, or other deadly weapon usually used for the infliction of personal injury. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars and not less than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty nor less than days.
1891 S.C. Acts 1101–02
(1891)
No. 703: Prohibited the sale of any pistol, rifle, cartridge, or pistol cartridge less than 45 calibre, or metal knuckles without obtaining a license from the county the person or corporation is doing business in. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both.
1894 S.C. Rev. Stat. 431, ch. 28, § 490 (Vol. 2)
(1890)
No person or corporation within the limits of this State shall sell or offer for sale any pistol, rifle, cartridge or pistol cartridge less than .45 caliber, or metal knuckles, without first obtaining a license from the county in which such person or corporation is doing business so to do.
1893 S.C. Acts 426
(1893)
No. 309, § 2: That the County Commissioners of the Several Counties of the State be, and they are herby, authorized to issue licenses in their respective Counties for the sale of pistols and pistol cartridges upon the payment to County Treasurer by the person or corporation so applying for said licenses of the sum of twenty-five dollars annually.
1878 S.C. Acts 724
(1878)
No. 602: It shall not be lawful for any person on the Counties of Horry, Marion, Darlington, Clarendon, Chesterfield, Georgetown, Marlboro, and Williamsburg to fish with nets or gigs, or set traps, or shoot fish with any kind of gun, in any of the fresh water rivers, creeks, lakes or other streams in said Counties, between the first day of May and the first day of September in any year hereafter.
1870 S.C. Acts 403
(1870)
No. 288, §4: Granted "Trial Justices" the authority to arrest all "affrayers, rioters, disturbers and breakers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively to the terror of the people." Including those who make threatening speeches, dangerous person, and disorderly persons.
1873 S.C. Rev. Stat. 404, ch. 77, § 21
(1873)
That it shall not be lawful for any non-resident of this State to use a gun, set a trap or decoy, or to employ any other device for killing or taking deer, turkeys, ducks or other game, not to set a trap, seine, or net, or draw or use the same, or any other contrivance for taking or killing fish, within the territorial limits of this State.
1873 S.C. Rev. Stat. 710, ch. 138, § 7
(1873)
Whoever shall challenge another to fight at sword, pistol, rapier, or any other dangerous weapon, or who shall accept any such challenge, shall, for every offense, on conviction thereof, be deprived of the right of suffrage, and be disabled forever from holding any office of profit or honor under this State, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the Court.
An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons Within the Corporate Limits of the Town of Allendale, §§ 1-3, in Edgefield Advertiser, May 13, 1880, at 4.
(1880)
That on and after the passage of this ordinance the carrying concealed about the person of any pistol, dirk, butcher-knife, sword or spear-cane, metal knuckles or other weapons of offence is hereby prohibited within the corporate limits of the town of Allendale, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars fine or ten days' imprisonment for each and every offence, upon conviction thereof; Provided, that this ordinance shall not apply to the sheriffs of this State or their deputies, or to any special or regular constable, or to the town marshal or his duly appointed assistants, in the discharge of their respective duties as such.
A Handbook of Politics for 1868, at 36 (1868)
(1866)
Order of General Sickles, Disregarding the Code, January 17, 1866 – General Order No. 1, § 16: The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed; nevertheless this shall not be construed to sanction the unlawful practice of carrying concealed weapons, nor to authorize any person to enter with arms on the premises of another against his consent. No one shall bear arms who has borne arms against the United Stales, unless he shall have taken the amnesty oath prescribed in the proclamation of the President of the United States, dated May 20, 1865, or the oath of allegiance, prescribed in the proclamation of the President, dated December 8, 1863, within the time prescribed therein. And no disorderly person, vagrant, or disturber of the peace, shall be allowed to bear arms."
By-Laws of the University of South Carolina, Regulations of the Faculty 35-37 (1867)
(1867)
§ 6: Students are strictly forbidden to visit bar-rooms, grog-shops, or disorderly houses; or to use, or bring within the precincts of the University, any intoxicating liquors; or to have about their persons, or keep in their rooms, any deadly weapon, which may be secretly carried: upon pain of admonition, suspension, or report for expulsion, at the discretion of the Faculty. Any student who shall be guilty of any atrocious or infamous offence, who shall fight a duel, or give or accept a challenge to fight a duel, or who shall carry any challenge to fight a duel, or act as a second to those who shall give or accept a challenge, shall be forthwith suspended from the University, and reported for expulsion."
1894 S.C. Rev. Stat. 307, tit. 2, ch. 9, § 129 (enacted 1880)
(1880)
Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot, metal knuckles, razor, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine up to $200 and/or imprisonment up to 1 year.
1866 S.C. Acts 275
(1865)
§§ 34–44: Prohibited any "[p]ersons of color" from being a part of the militia and from keeping a firearm, sword, or other military weapon without permission.
1882 S.C. Gen Stat. 699, tit. 1, ch. 100, pt. 4, § 2472
(1882)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, metal knuckles, razor, or other deadly weapon used for the infliction of personal injury. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by confiscation of the weapon, and fined no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both fined and imprisoned.

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