A critical pro–Second Amendment bill has just been pre-filed in South Carolina, and we need your help to ensure it becomes law.

House Bill 4723, the South Carolina Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, was recently introduced by Representative Chris Wooten of District 69.

This bill would strengthen South Carolina law by prohibiting so-called “qualified civil liability actions” that attempt to hold firearm manufacturers, dealers, and sellers, liable for a criminal’s misuse of their lawful products.

These lawsuits are not about justice, they are about bankrupting the firearms industry through lawfare.

Just like successful PLCAA reforms passed in other states, HB 4723:

• Protects law-abiding gun makers, sellers, and owners from unfair and politically motivated lawsuits
• Stops anti-gun activists from abusing the courts with lawsuit schemes that place unjustified strain on the firearms industry
• Still allows real lawsuits when there is actual negligence, a defective product, or criminal wrongdoing from the company
• Upholds South Carolina’s Second Amendment rights and the protections in the state constitution

Anti-gun groups have made it clear in the past: if they can’t ban firearms outright, they will try to destroy the right to keep and bear arms through the courts by bankrupting arms companies and gun dealers.

HB 4723 shuts that strategy down.

TAKE ACTION above to tell your State Representatives that you support HB 4723, and you expect them to defend South Carolinians from anti-gun lawfare.