Bill Text: NY A06947 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the definition of a "disguised gun" to include a weapon or device capable of being concealed on a person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive which is designed and intended to appear to be a toy gun.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A06947 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06947-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6947
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 27, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law,  in relation to redefining the term
          "disguised gun" to include any rifle, pistol, shotgun  or  machine-gun
          resembling  a  toy  gun and prohibiting the possession, manufacture or
          design thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 20 of section 265.00 of the penal law, as added
     2  by chapter 378 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
     3    20.  "Disguised  gun"  means  any  weapon  or  device capable of being
     4  concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through  the
     5  energy  of  an  explosive  and  is designed and intended to appear to be
     6  either; (a) something other than a gun; or (b)  a  toy  gun  that  shall
     7  include,  but  not be limited to, any rifle, pistol, shotgun or machine-
     8  gun displaying a color finish other than the original manufacture color,
     9  a decorative pattern or plastic like surface;  provided,  however,  that
    10  any  rifle  or  shotgun  displaying a camouflage color finish or pattern
    11  that is intended for hunting, as defined by article eleven of the  envi-
    12  ronmental  conservation  law,  shall not be considered a "disguised gun"
    13  for purposes of this section.
    14    § 2. Section 265.10 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    15  vision 8 to read as follows:
    16    8. Any person, dealer, firm, partnership  or  corporation  who  inten-
    17  tionally  designs  or transforms a rifle, pistol, shotgun or machine-gun
    18  to resemble a toy gun by either  altering  or  concealing  the  original
    19  color  or  surface of the gun with the purpose of selling such weapon is
    20  guilty of a class D felony.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    22  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.
                                                                   LBD10401-01-9
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