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The organization pointed to South Carolina and Louisiana, which passed and enacted legislation in 2024 allowing lawful gun owners to carry a firearm without a permit, and Colorado, Maine and New ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina would provide free gun training and allow anyone who can legally own a gun to carry their weapon in public under a bill that passed the state Senate on Thursday.
What to know: New gun laws rolled out in multiple states on Jan. 1, 2025 Idaho, Mississippi, Arkansas, Montana and Georgia were among the states with the weakest gun laws. States with weakest gun laws
In 2024, South Carolina lawmakers reinstated a bill that would define abortion as "prenatal homicide"; and make abortion patients eligible for the death penalty. [10] The number of abortion clinics in South Carolina has fluctuated over the years, with fifteen in 1982, eighteen in 1992 and three in 2014. There were 5,714 legal abortions in 2014 ...
In May 2024, a bill passed the South Carolina Legislature and signed into law by the Governor of South Carolina implementing a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for individuals under 18 years old, and a ban on federal funding going directly or indirectly towards gender affirming care for adults. The legislation went into effect immediately ...
The new law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2025, requires people convicted of certain crimes to serve 85% of their sentence to be eligible for parole instead of 75% of their sentence.
Several protests broke out against United States President Donald Trump's mass deportation of illegal immigrants following the start of his second presidential term on January 20, 2025. Large-scale protests have occurred in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas.
South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states ...