Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 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.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 711
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(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.
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; 79 Del. Laws, c. 421, § ?3;