{"id":101306,"date":"2024-04-13T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101306"},"modified":"2024-04-13T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:28:18","slug":"101306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101306","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/local-news\/officials-no-increase-in-gun-violence-since-constitutional-carry-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officials: \u201cNo increase in gun violence since \u2018constitutional carry\u2019 law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) \u2013 The Spartanburg County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Spartanburg City Police said they have seen no uptick in gun violence since the controversial bill dubbed \u201cConstitutional Carry\u201d was signed into law on March 7.<\/p>\n<p>The law directs millions of dollars into free gun safety programs, while making it legal for any adult to openly carry a handgun in public without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>It still remains a rule that only an person 21 years of age or older can purchase a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Before the law was enacted, adults 21 and older were able to both purchase a handgun and carry it in public.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Spartanburg-based state Sen. Josh Kimbrell (R) said the law would not normalize gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to pull out a pistol in public and point it at someone because you are pissed off that they took your parking space, we\u2019re not allowing that,\u201d Kimbrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Spartanburg-based gun store T&amp;K Outdoors said they\u2019ve seen an increase in customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirearms are a dangerous item. They\u2019re not toys. You must be safe with them,\u201d said Danny Ley, a T&amp;K Salesperson.<\/p>\n<p>A manager at the store said they emphasize gun safety and will never allow a customer to leave a store with a gun they purchased until they\u2019ve educated the customer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the customer leaves here they have a better understanding of how guns work [and] how they need to be safe with it,\u201d said Kyle Marlow, a T&amp;K outdoors manager. \u201cAnd we are an open book, we don\u2019t believe any question is too dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials: \u201cNo increase in gun violence since \u2018constitutional carry\u2019 law SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) \u2013 The Spartanburg County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Spartanburg City Police said they have seen no uptick in gun violence since the controversial bill dubbed \u201cConstitutional Carry\u201d was signed into law on March 7. The law directs millions of dollars into free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101308,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101306\/revisions\/101308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}