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Uniform Firearms Act, ch. 208, § 8, 1935 S.D. Sess. Laws 355, 356.

| | 1935

"Section 8. DELIVERY TO MINORS AND OTHERS FORBIDDEN.
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 ha...

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1933 S.D. Sess. Laws 245-47, An Act Relating to Machine Guns, and to Make Uniform the Law with Reference Thereto, ch. 206, §§ 1-8.

| | 1933

§ 1. “machine gun” applies to and includes a weapon of any description by whatever name known, loaded or unloaded from which more than five shots or bullets may be rapidly or automatically, or semi-automatically discharged from a magaz...

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1913 S.D. Sess. Laws 292, An Act to Regulate the Sale of Dynamite or Other High Explosives, and to Provide a Penalty for the Violation Thereof, § 1.

| | 1913

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 s...

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1909 S.D. Sess. Laws 450, An Act for the Preservation, Propagation, Protection, Taking, Use and Transportation of Game and Fish and Establishing the Office of State Game Warden and Defining His Duties, ch. 240, §§ 21-22.

| | 1909

§ 21. No person shall at any time catch, take or kill any of the birds or animals mentioned in this chapter in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held to the shoulder of the person discharging the same. § 22. No person shall at...

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1907 S.D. Sess. Laws 113-14, An Act Entitled an Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities under Commission, ch. 86, § 54, pt. 53.

| | 1907

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 st...

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1907 S.D. Sess. Laws 89, An Act Entitled an Act Defining Burglary with Explosives and the Punishment Therefor, ch. 82, §§ 1-3.

| | 1907

§ 1. 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...

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S.D. Rev. Code, Penal Code 1150 (1903) §§ 470 and 471

| | 1903

Every person who carries upon his person, whether concealed or not, or uses or attempt to use against another, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind, is guilty of a felony. § 471. Every person who...

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1903 S.D. Sess. Laws 168-69, Prohibiting the Use of Fire Arms by Persons under Fifteen Years of Age, ch. 144, §§ 1-3.

| | 1903

§1. 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 ...

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S.D. Rev. Code, Penal Code 1150 (1903), § 469.

| | 1903

§ 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.Read More

1901 S.D. Sess. Laws 6, An Act to prohibit the use, manufacture and sale of air guns and cannon fire crackers: §§1 and 2.

| | 1901

§ 1. UNLAWFUL TO MANUFACTURE AND SELL.] 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 ...

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1890 S.D. Sess. Laws 72, An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Their Classification According to Population, art. 5, § 1, pt. 53.

| | 1890

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 ...

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