The only local involvement I have seen is a few people contacting there representatives and the committees, and reading about how Grass Roots Gun Rights of SC was trying to get involved in the bill. The people amending the bill never took Grass Roots advice, and completely blew them off. The NRA is helping with the bill now, and I am not counting on them.
This is a state full people who only know about concealed carry. To me, it seems 90% of the gun owners here don't even know open carry exists in all the states around SC, they think OC only exits in Arizona and Texas (and Texas doesn't even have OC yet!). The people who carry here were taught by their concealed weapons permit instructors that unlicensed carry is bad, and there will be blood in the street if this bill passes.
We need to spread the word and tell the people working on the bill we want constitutional carry and restaurant carry, no exceptions.