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SLED's yearly Uniform Crime
thefts as 3.7 per cent of the total
property last year. These figure*
are not frequently stolen in S
$1,345,758 worth of guns stolen
guns.
Chief Deputy Price said guns
homes are legally purchased foi
as a collector's item. ATF Agent
haijdguns are the first things thi
quick to turn over. They're read
Criminals can buy guns from n
# dealers, if caught, could be finec
years in jail.
Criminals can also buy guns in;
laws are less strict than South
Georgia's state laws forbid sal
sale of any firearm less than 15
sawed off shotguns and rifles an
Georgia's gun regulation. Sixte<
laws adding restrictions to thosi
South Carolina has had the repi
gun control laws. Until last sun
into a gunshop, could show stat<
registration card and filled out st
forms,could buy as many euns as
The amount of guns bought in t
up, illegally, in Northern cities ir
persons used the term "Southern
the traffic of guns from the South
The January 5, 1975 program
devoted one of its segments to the
permissive gun laws in South
mentioned three handguns be
Carolina, one in Columbia, that
City. Two were used to kill and 01
robbery and attempted murder,
CBS reported that in 1974 the In
New York City Police traced
crimes in New York. More tha
9 Southern states, and half of tl
Carolina.
Last summer the state legislati
purchases to one gun in 30 days. '
you could go in and buy out the st<
said. "This new multiple-purcha
clean up South Carolina."
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dealers.
The multiple-purchase law hs
selling business very much,
manager Leigh.
The law, passed last June, orig
waiting period between purcha:
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"Most dealers are very
Report records firearms gffiBl
value of reported stolen I
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iouth Carolina, but the
represent thousands of
spf.
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eves look for. "Guns are
ly money," Russell said.
legligent dealers, but the
I $2,000 and-or spend two ^
a state whose gun control
Carolina's.
e of firearms to minors,
inches long, and sale of
d machine guns. That is
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to the North. [
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i availability of guns and
Carolina. The program
iught legally in South
turned up in New York
ie was used in an armed
according to CBS.
telligence Division of the i
1,800 handguns used in
n half came from four
hose came from South
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*un. Several states include some kind of waiting
d, referred to as a "cooling off" period, to allow
cement officials to verify the eligibility of the purr
and to prevent "crimes of passion."
it is now, SLED checks all transaction record forms
idiately, but the buyer already has the gun by the
his form is checked.
F>n thn hill uront (n fVin C^?.*U n 11 "
- ~ ?... ttviii iu me ouuui v/ctronna j>enaie, ine 10aiting
period was taken out of the bill.
state legislature has shifted the burden of keeping
lurchases legal on the dealer, Chief Deputy Price
He pointed to the recent legislation, effective May
'ear, making gun law violations a felony for the
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dealor and a misdemeanor for the purchaser.
Three years ago, the state legislature passed a bill
outlawing cheap hand guns, defined by law as a handgun
whose diecast frame would melt at 800 degrees
Fahrenheit. The handguns this law is aimed at are
sometimes called "Saturday Night Specials," because
I they are cheap enough for just about anyone to go out and
buy on a Saturday night?at the last minute.
Apparently this law has been effective in reducing the
availability of cheap handguns, but there are mixed
estimations of its value. Leigh approves of the law. "It
affected crime. It got cheap guns off the market. A person
thinks twice about spending $100 to kill someone."
Price does not favor tighter Run control Wislatinn
1 South Carolina. He especially objects to a law requiring
universal registration of guns. "New York has a firearm
registration law and it carries a heavy penalty. They've
got as many guns as here without registration."
New York's gun laws require not only thorough idenI
tification (including fingerprinting) of all handgun pur|
chasers, but purchasers must also have a special reason
to own a gun, that is, be in an especially dangerous line of
' business. There were only 28,000 guns registered in New
YorK Uity in 1974, according to CBS.
I This kind of justification is not necessary in South
Carolina unless a person wants to get a permit to carry the
gun "on his person." In that case, a person in this state
must go through the identification procedure and show he
knows how to handle a handgun, or take a $50 training
I course offered by SLED.
Neither Leigh nor Johnson think much of universal
registration of handguns, primarily because it would not
Keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
Explaining his objection to universal registration of
handguns, Leigh observed, "The first thing Hitler did was
register all the guns."
A 1975 Gallup poll asked the question: Do you favor
universal registration of guns? Of all those asked, 67 per
cent said "Yes" and 27 per cent said "No" (6 per cent
were undecided). The poll, printed in the Washington
Post, broke down the responses by sex, level of education
and region of the country. In the South, 66 per cent favored
gun registration and 28 per cent did not.
1 Congressman James B. Mann, representative from
South Carolina's fourth district, has ronsistpntiv nnnnc^
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gun control legislation drafted by the House Judiciary
Subcommittee, of which he is a member.
He explained his opposition to the subcommittee's
proposed legislation, saying he prefers legislation aimed
at stricter control on dealers and manufacturers?not on
the purchasers.
Last fall Mann told the Columbia Record he would never
support universal registration of handguns. "My mail is
running one letter for, to 100 against, gun control."
"People are not prepared to accept it and the result would
uc iu mane taw-DreaKers out of good citizens who regard
their rights to have guns as guaranteed under the Constitution,"
Mann explained.
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