South Carolina Gets an 'Unorganized Militia'
South Carolina Gets an 'Unorganized Militia'
CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - A South Carolina state senator introduced a bill declaring any state citizen 17 years old who can legally buy a gun a member of the state's "unorganized militia," and therefore allowed to buy "rifles and shotguns, handguns, clips, magazines, and all components."
State Sen. Tom Corbin's Senate Bill 247 would declare virtually everyone in South Carolina a member of the unorganized militia, unless they in an organized militia, such as the National Guard.
The bill got its first reading on Jan. 16, 2013, 32 days after the Newtown, Conn. elementary school massacre.
Corbin, a Republican, said he introduced the bill so South Carolinians could keep their guns and ammunition no matter what Congress does. If anything.
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The bill, which has received bipartisan support of from one states senate committee, state that "any able-bodied citizen of the state who is over seventeen years of age and can legally purchase a firearm is deemed a member of the South Carolina Unorganized Militia, unless he is already a member of the National Guard or the organized militia not in National Guard Service."
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