CONWAY Police Chief Reggie Gosnell doesn’t want to give away details of a gun buy-back plan he will propose to City Council members Monday night, but he said he will make recommendations.
It is impossible to know how many there are, though, because South Carolina has no central gun registry. The records of ownership stay at the shops where the guns are purchased, according to the Columbia Field Office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Gosnell, though, suspects there are too many.
“Do I think we have too much violent crime in Horry County?” he asked. “Yes. Are handguns a part of that? Yes.
“Do I think any effort to get control of that could be positive? Yes.”
The plan is only one of four things the chief will present to the Council at the meeting.
The others are a judicial video network system for municipal court bond hearings, a security camera system for the police department and a surveillance camera system for the Riverwalk and Riverfront Park/Marina areas.
Gosnell’s presentations are to comprise one section of the meeting, according to the agenda.
Early start
The meeting is set for an early start because Mayor Alys Lawson and three Council members will be sworn in for their new terms of office. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. rather than the regular start time of 5:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers on the second floor of City Hall.
Councilmen Larry White and Tom Anderson are returning to the seats they won in the November election. Barbara Bain-Olds, the former assistant city administrator, will take the third seat. Bain-Olds served on the Council prior to her stint as a staff member.
Longtime Councilwoman Vivian Chestnut lost her seat in the election.
Municipal Court Judge Andy Hendrick is to administer the oaths of office.
A brief recess for a reception is scheduled between the swearing-in ceremony and the remainder of the meeting.
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