Del. Code tit. 7 § 711

Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 269
Section 711 - Hunting with automatic-loading gun prohibited; penalty
(a) No person shall hunt for game birds or game animals in this State, except as authorized by state-sanctioned federal depredation/conservation orders for selected waterfowl species, with or by means of any automatic-loading or hand-operated repeating shotgun capable of holding more than 3 shells, the magazine of which has not been cut off or plugged with a filler incapable of removal through the loading end thereof, so as to reduce the capacity of said gun to not more than 3 shells at 1 time, in the magazine and chamber combined.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a class C environmental violation.
(c) Having in one's possession, while in the act of hunting game birds or game animals, a gun that will hold more than 3 shells at 1 time in the magazine and chamber combined, except as authorized in subsection (a) of this section, shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this section.

7 Del. C. § 711

Amended by Laws 2013, ch. 421,s 3, eff. 9/2/2014.
Code 1935, § 2830A; 45 Del. Laws, c. 204, § 1; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 712; 70 Del. Laws, c. 275, §§ 51, 71; 76 Del. Laws, c. 302, §§ 1 - 3.;