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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,
    1877 S.D. Terr. Penal Code 457, as codified in S.D. Rev. Code, Penal Code (1903)
    (1877)
    §§ 470-471: Prohibited the carrying, "whether concealed or not," of any slungshot, and prohibited the concealed carrying of any firearms or sharp or dangerous weapons.
  • Item type:Item,
    1880 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 771
    (1877)
    Penal Code, ch. 23, §§ 295-295: A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. § 295. Punishment for Fighting. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.
  • Item type:Item,
    1880 Dakota Terr. Rev. Codes 798
    (1877)
    Penal Code, ch. 39, § 495: Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun or other weapon, or throws any other missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.