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2025-2026 Bill 4723 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 17, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4723

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING CHAPTER 
83 TO TITLE 15 SO AS TO CREATE THE SOUTH CAROLINA PROTECTION OF LAWFUL COMMERCE 
IN ARMS ACT, TO DEFINE NECESSARY TERMS, AND TO PROHIBIT THE BRINGING OF A 
QUALIFIED CIVIL LIABILITY ACTION IN THIS STATE AGAINST A DEALER, MANUFACTURER, 
OR SELLER OF A QUALIFIED PRODUCT, WHICH INCLUDEs CERTAIN FIREARMS AND RELATED 
ITEMS, OR A TRADE ASSOCIATION EXCEPT UNDER CERTAIN DELINEATED CIRCUMSTANCES.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. The 
General Assembly finds that to protect the individual right to keep and bear 
arms, as guaranteed by both Section 20, Article I of the Constitution of South 
Carolina, 1895, and the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, by 
fostering a robust marketplace to ensure ready access to arms and accompanying 
accoutrements, it is the public policy of this State not to allow recovery 
against a dealer, manufacturer, or seller of a qualified product, which 
includes certain firearms and related items, or a trade association, for 
qualified civil liability actions or other causes of action resulting from or 
relating to the criminal or unlawful misuse of qualified products by third 
parties, public nuisance or market share theories of liability, or any other 
theory of liability not recognized by the laws of this State.

SECTION 2. Title 15 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

CHAPTER 83

South Carolina Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms 
Act

 Section 
15-83-10. As used in this chapter, the term:

 (1) 
"Ammunition" means loaded firearm ammunition, an ammunition or cartridge case, 
primer, bullet, or propellant designed for use in a firearm, or that is defined 
in 18 U.S.C. Section 921(a)(17).

 (2) 
"Dealer" means a person who is licensed to engage in business as a dealer in this 
State in accordance 18 U.S.C. Section 923.

 (3) 
"Defective condition" means a condition:

 (a) 
of a product that renders it unsafe for normal or foreseeable use or handling; 
and

 (b) 
that is the result of the dealer, manufacturer, or seller's negligent deviation 
from the qualified product design or quality.

 (4) 
"Engaged in the business" has the same meaning as defined in 18 U.S.C. Section 
921(a)(21), and as applied to a seller of ammunition, means a person who 
devotes time, attention, and labor to the sale of ammunition as a regular 
course of trade or business through the sale or distribution of ammunition.

 (5) 
"Firearm" has the same meaning as defined in Section 23-31-1050(3), 18 U.S.C. 
Section 921(a)(3), 18 U.S.C. Section 921(a)(16), or 26 U.S.C. Section 5845(a).

 (6) 
"Manufacturer" means a person who is:

 (a) 
engaged in the business of manufacturing a qualified product; and

 (b) 
incorporated, formed, or registered in this State, or headquartered or 
maintaining a place of business in this State.

 (7) 
"Negligent entrustment" means the supplying of a qualified product by a seller for 
use by another person when the seller knows, or reasonably should know, by clear 
and convincing evidence that the person to whom the product is supplied intends 
to, and does, use the product in a criminal manner involving physical injury to 
others.

 (8) 
"Person" means an individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, 
society, joint stock company, governmental entity, or other entity.

 (9) 
"Qualified civil liability action" means a civil action or proceeding, 
arbitration proceeding, or administrative proceeding brought by a person 
against a manufacturer or seller of a qualified product for damages, punitive 
damages, injunctive or declaratory relief, abatement, restitution, fines, 
penalties, or other relief, resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a 
qualified product by a person, or resulting from a theory of liability 
construing the manufacture, marketing, or sale of qualified products as 
tortious or the breach of a legal duty.

 (10) 
"Qualified product" means:

 (a) 
a firearm;

 (b) 
a firearm or ammunition part or component;

 (c) 
ammunition;

 (d) 
an antique firearm as defined in Section 16-23-210;

 (e) 
body armor

 (f) 
devices that assist in increasing the rapidity with which a user may discharge 
a semiautomatic firearm;

 (g) 
firearm magazines, clips, or other devices that store ammunition in a ready 
state to be loaded into a firearm;

 (h) 
firearm silencers, mufflers, or other devices designed and intended to reduce 
the audible report of a firearm;

 (i) 
knives, saps, and other bladed or blunt-impact defensive weapons;

 (j) 
optical devices, lights, lasers, sights, or scopes used or intended to be used