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South Dakota

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to South Dakota. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Dakota Territory period through statehood to the present.

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    1890 S.D. Sess. Laws 72
    (1890)
    Art. 5, § 1, pt. 53: To regulate and prevent the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires; also to regulate and restrain the use of fire works, fire crackers, torpedoes, roman candles, sky rockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.
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    1913 S.D. Sess. Laws 292
    (1913)
    Ch. 209, § 1: No person, firm, or corporation shall sell any dynamite or other high explosive, except ordinary gun powder in the state of South Dakota, to any person unknown to the seller, unless introduced by some person known to the seller, and on every sale the seller shall before delivery, make entry on a book kept for that purpose stating the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the article sold, the purpose for which it is required and the name of the person, if any, who introduced them. Any person failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1907 S.D. Sess. Laws 89
    (1907)
    Ch. 82, §§ 1-3: A person who, with intent to commit burglary, breaks and enters in the night time a building and commits or attempts burglary by the use of nitro-glycerine dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive, is guilty of burglary with explosives in the second degree.
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    1909 S.D. Sess. Laws 374
    (1909)
    Ch. 240, §§ 21-22: Prohibited the setting or possession of any "set gun."
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    1901 S.D. Sess. Laws 6
    (1901)
    Ch. 7, §§ 1-2: That it shall be unlawful to use, manufacture, sell or dispose of in this state for any consideration, or give away any air gun or any article of fire works known as cannon fire crackers which shall include brands known as Unlce Sam salutes, ripper crackers, whistling cannon crackers, new American cannon crackers, X-ray cannon crackers, and all fire crackers more than three inches in length or any fire cracker made wholly or in part of dynamite or giant powder.
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    1899 S.D. Sess. Laws 972
    (1899)
    Ch. 107, Political Code, § 3240: Prohibited [a]t any time kill[ing] or shoot[ing] any wild duck, goose or brant with any swivel gun or other gun, except as is commonly shot form the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes us of any artificial light or battery. . .
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    1903 S.D. Sess. Laws 168-69
    (1903)
    Ch. 144, §§ 1-3: It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of fifteen years to carry, use or discharge any rifle, shot gun, revolver or other fire arms except with the consent and knowledge of their parents or guardians. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any parent or guardian, having the legal charge or control of any minor under the age of fifteen years, to allow or permit such minor to use or carry while loaded any of the arms mentioned in section one of this act within the platted portion or within the distance of one mile of the platted portion of any city, town or village. § 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
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    1903 S.D. Rev. Codes 1150, § 469
    (1903)
    Penal Code, § 469: Every person who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or sells or offers or keeps for sale, or gives or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    1903 S.D. Rev. Codes 1150, §§ 470-471
    (1903)
    Penal Code, §§ 470-471: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed slungshot, firearm, or sharp or dangerous weapon.
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    1907 S.D. Sess. Laws 113-14
    (1907)
    Ch. 86, § 54, pt. 53: To regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires, also to regulate and restrain the use of fireworks, fire crackers, torpedoes, roman candles, skyrockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.