The South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy can go through a lot of bullets. It has 18 classes of students a year, with 75 students in each class and each student using about 600 bullets. There are two giant tubs at the firing range holding thousands of spent cartridges, and those are just from two classes. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle has more on the shortage.

Even though he reached the end of the road, a local man decided to stay in his car. Lonnie Holloway was buried in Saluda, South Carolina on Tuesday inside one of his most prized possessions: a 1973 Pontiac Catalina. Holloway, who was born in 1918, asked that his rifles and handguns also be be buried with him. He spend 32 years working for the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The State Law Enforcement Division is defending its recent spending of more than $600,000 on new vehicles and weapons, despite state budget cuts that forced the agency to lay off more than 100 people. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

Waynesboro Police investigators are looking into a series of car break-ins, where guns are being stolen. Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud for more on the investigation.

There was a scary situation, Sunday evening, for some employees at Augusta’s Burlington Coat Factory. Employees told police they were counting money in the back of the store, just after the 7:00 p.m., when two men wearing masks waved a gun and demanded money from them.

Authorities have charged more than 90 people in a sweeping gun and drug bust in this otherwise sleepy rural town. Federal prosecutors and local authorities said Tuesday the arrests came after a 10-month undercover operation in this south Georgia city of nearly 23,000.

A federal appeals court has dismissed a Georgia gun group’s lawsuit seeking to allow firearms in parts of the world’s busiest airport. The group GeorgiaCarry.org sued after the city of Atlanta and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport banned guns from even unsecured areas in the terminals.

According to Captain Troy Elwell, on Tuesday, at approximately 12:50 p.m., the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) responded to the Beech Island Credit Union, located at 143 Old Jackson Highway, in Beech Island South Carolina, for an armed robbery.

South Carolina lawmakers are considering separate bills that would make it illegal to smoke in a car with a child, but allow handguns to be stowed under the seat.

Police in South Carolina say they collected more than 200 weapons as part of their “Guns for Roses” program.

A new bill introduced in the South Carolina Senate is either a worrisome threat to children’s safety or a minor change to keep law-abiding citizens from inadvertently breaking the law, depending on your viewpoint. The bill would allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit to have his gun on a school campus, as long as the gun is locked in a vehicle. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

Aiken County investigators say a man is under arrest after being caught with thousands of dollars worth of drugs in the home. Robbie Seigler, 45, is facing several drug charges.

People will now be able to carry concealed weapons in some national parks and wildlife refuges.

According to Lt. Michael Frank, a month-long undercover drug investigation led to the Tuesday morning arrest of four men and the seizure of drugs, guns and money from a home on Westside Drive, in Clearwater, South Carolina.

Most people are probably unaware of it, but on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, handguns, rifles and shotguns will be sales tax free in South Carolina. State lawmakers passed a bill in June that includes the sales tax holiday on firearms. They called it the Second Amendment Recognition Act. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has the story.