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Some protestors carried Disarm Hate signs, which comes from the organization Everytown, to help build awareness of the causes of gun violence in America.<\/p>\n
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Sen. Greg Gregory, R-Lancaster says bipartisanship is critical on an issue as important as gun control.<\/p>\n
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Arlene Andrews, a member of Moms Demand Action for gun sense, said the group started after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting after a mom who was very concerned about violence started a Facebook page.\u00a0 Moms Demand Action has become a National movement.<\/p>\n
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Students, educators and politicians were all in attendance at a Feb. 27 State House rally, but most of the crowd came from a group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.<\/p>\n
The women came from all across the state to push for one common cause: substantial gun reforms to end senseless violence and protect all children at school.<\/p>\n
South Carolina senators are looking to close the so-called \u201cCharleston Loophole\u201d with legislation introduced in the state senate.<\/p>\n
The bipartisan bill is cosponsored by Sen. Marlon Kimpson, D-Charleston, and Sen. Greg Gregory, R-Lancaster. It would mandate gun dealers in South Carolina wait five days before transferring a firearm in the case of a delayed background check.<\/p>\n
Gregory said that this bill came out of the 2015 Charleston shooting where a gunman entered Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and nine people, including a senate colleague, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney.<\/p>\n
The current law in South Carolina allows gun dealers to sell firearms without a completed background check if it takes the National Instant Background Check System more than three days to process the application.<\/p>\n
The NICS database is a list of individuals who are by law prohibited to purchase a gun.<\/p>\n
Gregory explained how the NICS database works for gun dealers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen someone goes to buy a gun they [the gun dealer] call the NICS number, and 92 percent of the people who are buying a gun are approve instantaneously, meaning they walk out with a gun,\u201d Gregory said. \u201cAbout 8 percent are either denied because they have a criminal record or something else that prohibits them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Expanding the number of days gun dealers must wait to transfer a firearm from three to five days gives authorities more time to determine whether a potential buyer can legally purchase a gun.<\/p>\n
However, this bill would not have stopped the Charleston shooter, avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof, from getting a gun because that was a clerical error.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would stop Dylann-Roof-type people from getting a gun,\u201d Gregory said.<\/p>\n
The bill aims to improve the efficiency of background checks by requiring clerks of court to report cases that keep a person from buying a firearm.<\/p>\n
This bill would also reduce to 10 days the time that a clerk of court has to report the disposition of court cases to state law.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is currently a 30-day period,\u201d Kimpson said.<\/p>\n
It would also create a 48-hour deadline for court\u00a0clerks to report court orders, including orders of protection, restraining orders, orders preventing possession of a firearm, domestic violence convictions and orders issued in cases of harassment or stalking of another person.<\/p>\n
Arlene Andrews, a member of the Moms Demand Action group, is hopeful this bill will pass.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to do a background check, you want it to be effective. This bill helps to strengthen that for South Carolinians,\u201d Andrews said.<\/p>\n
Kimpson said sponsors need the majority of votes in the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, time is of the essence for the bill. It has to be passed before this legislative session is over in May.<\/p>\n
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