It is unlawful to carry about the person a handgun concealed or
unconcealed except as follows:
• Law enforcement officers and prison guards while they are on duty.
• Members of the armed forces, reserve forces, National Guard, or State
Militia, when on duty.
• Members of organizations authorized by law to buy or receive firearms
from the United States or South Carolina, or regularly enrolled members
of target shooting or firearms collecting clubs while these members are
at or going to or from their places of target practice or their shows and
exhibits.
• Licensed hunters or fishermen while engaged in hunting or fishing or
going to or from their places of hunting or fishing.
• Persons while possessing, using, or carrying a handgun in the usual or
ordinary course of their business involving firearms.
• Authorized military or civil organizations and their members
while parading or going to and from the places of their respective
organizations.
• Any person in his home, or upon his real property, or fixed place of
business.
•
Any person in a vehicle where the handgun is secured in a closed glove
compartment, closed console or closed trunk. The handgun may be
loaded.
• Any person carrying an unloaded handgun in a secure wrapper from the
place of purchase to his home, fixed place of business or while moving.
• Any person who is granted a permit under provision of law by the
State Law Enforcement Division and who carries a handgun within the
limitations of the permit.
• A person on school property is authorized to carry a concealed weapon
when the weapon remains inside an attended or locked motor vehicle
and is secured in a closed glove compartment, closed console, closed
trunk, or in a closed container secured by an integral fastener and
transported in the luggage compartment of the vehicle.
The above was from the condensed version at NRA-ILA
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
SECTION 16-23-20. Unlawful carrying of handgun; exceptions.
(9) a person in a vehicle if the handgun is secured in a closed glove compartment, closed console, closed trunk, or in a closed container secured by an integral fastener and transported in the luggage compartment of the vehicle; however, this item is not violated if the glove compartment, console, or trunk is opened in the presence of a law enforcement officer for the sole purpose of retrieving a driver’s license, registration, or proof of insurance;
