In the state of South Dakota a concealed pistol may be carried with a valid concealed pistol permit honored in South Dakota and that is allowed by state and local laws. Some, not all, South Dakota state laws are posted below.
 

* No person may discharge a firearm while on that portion of public waters of this state that inundate privately-owned property from a location which is within 660 feet of an occupied dwelling, church, schoolhouse, or livestock being held in a confined area according to standard animal husbandry practices. However, a landowner or any person receiving permission from the landowner may discharge a firearm while on that portion of public waters that inundate the private property of that landowner. (SDCL 41-9-1.4)

* No person may possess any firearm in a courthouse, at any school, or parking lot of a school (vehicles are included). (SDCL 13-32-7 and SDCL 22-14-23)

* Any type of firearm cannot be carried on a snowmobile unless the firearm is COMPLETELY UNLOADED AND ENCASED! (SDCL 32-20A-11)

* No person who has the intent to commit a felony may carry a weapon. (SDCL 22-14-8)

* Any intoxicated person MAY NOT carry a firearm. (SDCL 22-14-7) No person may possess a firearm while in an alcohol establishment (example: bar) which derives over one half of its income from the sale of malt or alcoholic beverages. (SDCL 23-7-8.1)

* No person may fire or discharge a weapon or firearm from a vehicle that is moving or at an occupied structure. (SDCL 22-14-20 and SDCL 22-14-21)

* A firearm with an altered serial number MAY NOT be possess by any person. (SDCL 22-14-5)

* No person may provide a weapon or firearm to another person prohibited by law from such possession. (SDCL 22-14-16)

* You do not need a concealed pistol permit in your own home, your property, your place of business, any closed and locked compartment of a vehicle, or in a closed container which will be too large to be effectively concealed from a person's clothing. (SDCL 22-14-11 and SDCL 22-44-10)

* No person may sell, transfer, give, loan, furnish, or deliver a firearm or firearm ammunition to any person under the age of eighteen years if such person knows or reasonably believes that the minor recipient of the transfer intended, at the time of transfer, to use the firearm or ammunition in the commission or attempted commission of a crime of violence as defined in subdivision 22-1-2(9). (SDCL 23-7-46)