South Dakota
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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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Item type:Item, 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.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, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 1935 S.D. Sess. Laws 355(1935)Ch. 208, § 8: No person shall deliver a pistol to any person under the age of eighteen or to one who he has reasonable cause to believe has been convicted of a crime of violence, or is a drug addict, an habitual drunkard, or of unsound mind."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, 1887 Dakota Terr. Laws 165-66(1887)Ch. 58, § 8: If any person shall kill or shoot any wild duck, goose or brant with any swivel gun, or any kind of gun except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or shall use medicated or poisoned food to capture or kill any of the birds named in this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail for thirty days unless such fine and the costs of prosecution are sooner paid.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.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…Item type:Item, 1909 S.D. Sess. Laws 374(1909)Ch. 240, §§ 21-22: Prohibited the setting or possession of any "set gun."Item type:Item, 1933 S.D. Sess. Laws 245–47(1933)Ch. 206, §§ 1-8: Prohibited possession of a machine gun during a violent crime. Punishable by imprisonment up to 15 years. Prohibited using a machine gun offensively or aggressively; punishable by imprisonment up to 15 years. Requires manufacturers to keep a register of machine guns and for owners to converted their machine guns to pistols to register the weapon.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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. . .Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.