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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.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, homesteading, ranching, railroad, and mining records, and oral histories tied to South Dakota people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    Ordinance no. 61, ch. 15, §§ 1 & 3, in The Madison Daily Leader, Oct. 26, 1892, at 4
    (1892)
    No person, company or corporation shall keep in store any gun or blasting powder, or other like explosive substance, in any house, shop or other place within the city of Madison, except in such place or magazine as shall have been approved by the city council of said city for that purpose; provided, that any person, company or corporation engaged in retailing powder, may keep for purpose of retail only, a quantity of gunpowder not to exceed two hundred pounds at any one time at his or their place of business, provided, further, that all powder so kept for sale, shall be kept in fire proof boxes or canisters, out of doors, remote from fires, lighted lamps, candles or gas jets, and such that can be readily removed in case of fire; and it shall be the duty of chief of police to see that dealers in powder comply with this section…
  • Item type:Item,
    Ordinance no. 61, ch. 16, §§ 1-2, 19, & 28, in The Madison Daily Leader, Oct. 26, 1892, at 4
    (1892)
    Any person not an officer of the law in the execution of hit duty, who shall in the city of Madison draw a pistol, revolver, knife or other deadly weapon upon another person shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.Any person who shall in the city of Madison carry concealed about his person any firearm, slungshot, sheath or dirk knife, brass knuckles or any other weapon, which when used is likely to produce death or great bodily harm, shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars…Any person who shall in the city of Madison discharge or shoot off any gun, pistol or other firearm, or discharge within the fire limits any firecrackers, rockets or other piece of fireworks, shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars…