Bill Text: NY A01644 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the offenses of aggravated sale of a firearm and aggravated sale of a firearm to a minor.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-10 - advanced to third reading cal.543 [A01644 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01644-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1644 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 11, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to firearms THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 265.45 2 and 265.50 to read as follows: 3 S 265.45 AGGRAVATED SALE OF A FIREARM. 4 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED SALE OF A FIREARM WHEN SUCH PERSON 5 KNOWINGLY AND UNLAWFULLY SELLS, EXCHANGES, GIVES OR DISPOSES OF A 6 FIREARM TO A PERSON WHICH HE OR SHE KNOWS HAS BEEN: 7 1. USED IN THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY OFFENSE; 8 2. STOLEN FROM ITS LAWFUL OWNER; OR 9 3. DEFACED AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION 265.00 OF THIS 10 ARTICLE. 11 AGGRAVATED SALE OF A FIREARM IS A CLASS D FELONY. 12 S 265.50 AGGRAVATED SALE OF A FIREARM TO A MINOR. 13 A PERSON OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED SALE OF A 14 FIREARM TO A MINOR WHEN SUCH PERSON KNOWINGLY AND UNLAWFULLY SELLS, 15 EXCHANGES, GIVES OR DISPOSES OF A FIREARM TO A PERSON WHO IS, OR REASON- 16 ABLY APPEARS TO BE LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, WHICH HE OR SHE 17 KNOWS HAS BEEN: 18 1. USED IN THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY OFFENSE; 19 2. STOLEN FROM ITS LAWFUL OWNER; OR 20 3. DEFACED AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION 265.00 OF THIS 21 ARTICLE. 22 AGGRAVATED SALE OF A FIREARM TO A MINOR IS A CLASS C FELONY. 23 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 24 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03334-01-1