Observations from my South Carolina Beach Vacation, re CCW

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Tue Sep-01-09 01:15 AM
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Observations from my South Carolina Beach Vacation, re CCW

Edited on Tue Sep-01-09 01:19 AM by virginia mountainman

I recently got back from a wonderful vacation, in sunny South Carolina. My wife, and our two kids had a wonderful time staying along the Grand Strand, and had a blast.

My wife and I carried our defensive sidearms practically the whole time. I noticed, that most of the "no guns" signs are history now, at privately owned businesses and most of the few that remain, are unenforceable under South Carolina law.

I know several of us, DU'ers hold CCW permits, have you all been noticing the same thing over the years? Less and less businesses are posted "no guns" for y'all as well?

We stayed for almost two weeks, and the only times we needed to lock our sidearms up, was when we ate at a high end restaurant, that serves alcohol, where we where prohibited by statute. Or when we went swimming.

Out of ALL the stores, and shops we went too, NONE where posted "no guns" NOT A SINGLE ONE, and boy, my wife and daughter had at it!

NONE of the restaurants we saw, or ate at where posted "No Guns"

The condo we stayed at had a NO GUN policy, but it excepted "Lawful CCW" holders, it was only noted on the BACK of the papers they gave us when we picked up the keys, it was in the small print, and was clearly unenforceable under South Carolina law, their where ZERO signs on the property. But their was a sign about not getting into the pool, if you have diarrhea.

Only ONE "activity" we did, was posted as a "No Guns" place, but the signs where completely invalid, as they did not comply with South Carolina law. **SEE BELOW FOR SOUTH CAROLINA's SIGN REGULATION**.....Actully, I did not see ANY, LEGAL, "No guns" sign in South Carolina...

We WHERE going to go to Fort Sumpter, but we did not get to this year.

The tide has definitely turned, seemed like back in the late 1990's the NO GUNS signs where almost ubiquitous, but not no more, now they are the exception, rather than the rule.

What are your experiences with this?

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SECTION 23-31-235. Sign requirements.

(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, any requirement of or allowance for the posting of signs prohibiting the carrying of a concealable weapon upon any premises shall only be satisfied by a sign expressing the prohibition in both written language interdict and universal sign language.

(B) All signs must be posted at each entrance into a building where a concealable weapon permit holder is prohibited from carrying a concealable weapon and must be:

(1) clearly visible from outside the building;

(2) eight inches wide by twelve inches tall in size;

(3) contain the words “NO CONCEALABLE WEAPONS ALLOWED” in black one inch tall uppercase type at the bottom of the sign and centered between the lateral edges of the sign;

(4) contain a black silhouette of a handgun inside a circle seven inches in diameter with a diagonal line that runs from the lower left to the upper right at a forty five degree angle from the horizontal;

(5) a diameter of a circle; and

(6) placed not less than forty inches and not more than sixty inches from the bottom of the building’s entrance door.

(C) If the premises where concealable weapons are prohibited does not have doors, then the signs contained in subsection (A) must be:

(1) thirty six inches wide by forty eight inches tall in size;

(2) contain the words “NO CONCEALABLE WEAPONS ALLOWED” in black three inch tall uppercase type at the bottom of the sign and centered between the lateral edges of the sign;

(3) contain a black silhouette of a handgun inside a circle thirty four inches in diameter with a diagonal line that is two inches wide and runs from the lower left to the upper right at a forty five degree angle from the horizontal and must be a diameter of a circle whose circumference is two inches wide;

(4) placed not less than forty inches and not more than ninety six inches above the ground;

(5) posted in sufficient quantities to be clearly visible from any point of entry onto the premises.