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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.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.
  • Item type:Item,
    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.