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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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Start date: 1870

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    1931 S.C. Acts 78
    (1931)
    No. 58, § 1: Prohibited the setting of any loaded trap gun or spring gun. Punishable by a fine of $100-500 or imprisonment of 30 days to 1 year.
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    1923 S.C. Acts 221
    (1923)
    No. 148, § 19 (¶ 3): Prohibited the selling or giving to a minor a pistol or pistol cartridge, brass knucks, Bowie knife, dirk, loaded cane or slingshot. Also prohibited a parent from giving such a weapon to their child under 12 years old. Punishable by fine up to $50 or imprisonment up to 30 days.
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    1934 S.C. Acts 1288
    (1934)
    No. 731, §§ 1–6: Prohibited transporting, possessing, selling, renting, or giving a firearm or machine gun. Punishable by fine up to $1,000 and imprisonment with solitary confinement up to 20 years.
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    1901 S.C. Acts 748
    (1901)
    No. 435, § 1: It shall be unlawful for any one to carry about the person whether concealed or not any pistol less than 20 inches long and 3 pounds in weight.
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    1923 S.C. Acts 19-20
    (1923)
    No. 11, § 11: There shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid upon all ammunition, including shells for shotguns and cartridges for rifles, pistols, revolvers, automatic pistols, rifles and machine guns, and upon such shells and cartridges partially prepared for use but lacking powder or shot or other necessary constituent, and upon blank shells and cartridges (but not upon powder or shot or caps not prepared and not in form to use in modern firearms), when sold at retail or to the ultimate consumer, the following: Upon all shotgun or other shells, two ($2.00) dollars per thousand rounds; Upon all cartridges, twenty-five (25) caliber or greater, two ($2.00) dollars per thousand rounds.
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    1918 S.C. Acts 723
    (1918)
    No. 393, § 1: Provided further, that it shall be unlawful to at any time use any automatic or pump gun while hunting birds in said county. Any person violating any of the provisions hereof shall upon conviction in any Court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars, or be imprisoned at hard labor not less than ten days nor more than twenty days for each and every offense.
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    1903 S.C. Acts 124
    (1903)
    No. 82, § 1: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That no person shall sell, deliver or dispose of dynamite or similar powerful explosives, except ordinary gunpowder, unless such person knows the purchaser or the party to receive the same and is satisfied that the explosive is not to be used for killing fish, and then only upon a written application from party desiring to purchase, stating the purpose for which he desires to use the said explosives; and a person selling, delivering or disposing of such explosives, shall keep a book in which shall be recorded the name of the purchaser or party to whom the explosive is delivered, the quantity so sold or delivered, and the date of such sale or delivery.
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    1910 S.C. Acts 694
    (1910)
    No. 859, § 1: That from and after the approval of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person to present or point at any other person any loaded or unloaded firearm, and any one, on conviction therefor, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; provided that nothing contained herein shall be construed to abridge the right of self-defense or to apply to theatricals or like performances.
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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    1903 S.C. Acts 127-28
    (1903)
    No. 86, § 1: [I]t shall be unlawful for any one to carry about the person, whether concealed or not, any pistol less than twenty inches long and three pounds in weight; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell or offer for sale, lease, rent, barter, exchange, or transport for sale or into this state, any pistols of less length and weight.
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    1900 S.C. Acts 449
    (1900)
    No. 254, § 1: That any person who shall, without just cause or excuse, or while under the influence, or feigning to be under the influence of intoxicating liquors, engage in any boisterous conduct, or who shall, without just cause or excuse, discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm while upon or within fifty yards of any public road or highway, 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 beimprisoned for not more than thirty days.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.