Post by Logan on Jun 3, 2016 3:20:23 GMT -6
COLUMBIA -- S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she would support lawmakers approving the removal of a Confederate flag from a chapel at The Citadel to a nearby museum.
But Haley said she does not support the state lengthening a federal three-day waiting period to complete background checks before gun purchases.
At the urging of Republican Haley, S.C. legislators removed the Confederate flag from the State House grounds last summer after a self-avowed racist, who had posed with the flag, was charged with slaying nine parishioners of Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.
Subsequently, some legislators called on the state to close the so-called “Charleston loophole,” which allows guns to be purchased if a background check has not been completed in three days.
Read more here: www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article81348162.html
But Haley said she does not support the state lengthening a federal three-day waiting period to complete background checks before gun purchases.
At the urging of Republican Haley, S.C. legislators removed the Confederate flag from the State House grounds last summer after a self-avowed racist, who had posed with the flag, was charged with slaying nine parishioners of Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.
Subsequently, some legislators called on the state to close the so-called “Charleston loophole,” which allows guns to be purchased if a background check has not been completed in three days.
Read more here: www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article81348162.html