Keeping guns out of the hands of convicted abusers is one measure under consideration by a state House committee set up to improve the state’s domestic violence laws.
The committee is to begin efforts Wednesday to draft the reforms. Rep. Shannon Erickson, a Beaufort Republican who chairs the panel, said guns could be banned from convicted abusers in a manner similar to the way the state last year restricted guns from those designated mentally incompetent by the courts.
Erickson said evidence presented to her committee showed that domestic violence often is an escalating crime that can result in severe injury or death to others. Accordingly, she said she believes it’s possible to maintain South Carolina’s support for individual gun rights while creating “good laws that protect our own citizens in the process.”
Only if it’s a felony and you loose all your civil rights.