by Six override votes are scheduled for the NC House of Representatives today. Included in the six is the override vote for SB50- Freedom to Carry NC. That is the bill that would make North Carolina the 30th state to allow permitless concealed carry. Open carry without a permit has already been legal in North Carolina for over a 100 years.
From the House Calendar under reconsideration of vetoed bills:
SB 50 Britt, Daniel and Settle (Primary Sponsors)
FREEDOM TO CARRY NC.
(Vetoed by Governor – 6/20/25) (Ratified Edition)
Whether an actual vote is taken today is up in the air. However, the arrest of Rep. Cecil Brockman (D-Guilford) for statutory rape and indecent liberties with a minor must play into this. Brockman is currently in jail with bond set at over $1 million. Both Democrats and Republicans are calling for Brockman to either resign or be expelled.
An override in North Carolina requires a 60% majority vote. By my calculations, it would take all 71 Republicans voting to override plus another one or more Democrats being absent in addition to Brockman for an override to succeed. The override vote for SB 50 plus five other vetoed bills has been calendared and then postponed multiple times. We will see if this time is any different.
Presumably there is no point in the leadership having a vote if they know it will fail. Do they have all 71 R votes? And might another D get arrested at some point?
I quite agree. I’m still not sure all 71 GOP votes are there. The vote was postponed again until today. I somehow doubt that they will take it up as they will be taking up redistricting again. The State Senate voted yesterday to change the congressional districts such that it may give the Republicans an 11-3 split instead of the current 10-4 split.