Legislation introduced Friday by the Idaho Sheriff’s Association would repeal a law that dates back to the 1860s and deals with jurisdiction and duels. “Every year the Sheriffs Association tasks me with trying to find obscure laws, and I think I’ve found some good ones this year,” lobbyist Mike Kane told the House Judiciary Committee. In addition to the dueling statute, Kane proposed legislation to repeal outdated laws about prisoner transfers in cases of pestilence. Kane told the committee, “I know of no duels that have occurred.” The pestilence law, he said, “Has not, frankly, been enforced, to my knowledge, ever.” It refers to a preceding section of Idaho Code, but “there is none,” Kane said. “That was repealed three years ago”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: If you were to fight a duel to the death, what would you choose as your weapons?