Bill Text: NY A07489 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-17 - print number 7489a [A07489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07489-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7489--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL,  SIMON,  JEAN-PIERRE,  SIMONE,
          DARLING, BURDICK, THIELE, SAYEGH, STECK -- read once and  referred  to
          the  Committee  on  Codes  -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the  penal  law  and  the  criminal  procedure  law,  in
          relation to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 265.10 of the penal law, as  sepa-
     2  rately  amended  by  chapters  34,  130  and 146 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 10 is added to read as follows:
     4    1. Any person who  manufactures  or  causes  to  be  manufactured  any
     5  machine-gun,  assault  weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device,
     6  ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silencer, magazine,  or
     7  major component of a firearm, rifle or shotgun or disguised gun is guil-
     8  ty  of  a  class  D  felony. Any person who manufactures or causes to be
     9  manufactured any rapid-fire modification device is guilty of a  class  E
    10  felony.  Any  person  who  manufactures or causes to be manufactured any
    11  switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal knuckle knife, undetect-
    12  able knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuckles,  metal  knuck-
    13  les, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag, sandclub or slungshot is guilty
    14  of a class A misdemeanor.
    15    10.  Any  person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of,
    16  by any means, including via the internet, digital  instructions  in  the
    17  form  of  computer-aided  design  files,  standard triangle/tessellation
    18  language files, or other code  or  instructions  that  may  be  used  to
    19  program  a  three-dimensional  printer  to  manufacture  or  produce any
    20  machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition  feeding  device,
    21  disguised  gun, ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silenc-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11376-03-4
        A. 7489--A                          2

     1  er, magazine, or major component of a firearm, rifle or  shotgun,  to  a
     2  person  in  New  York who is not registered or licensed as a gunsmith as
     3  provided for in section 400.00 of this chapter with  a  Type  7  Federal
     4  Firearms License, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
     5    § 2. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     6  vision 36 to read as follows:
     7    36.  "Three-dimensional  printer"  means a computer or computer-driven
     8  machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a
     9  digital model.
    10    § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 700.05 of the criminal procedure law  is
    11  amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
    12    (w)  Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and
    13  dangerous instruments and appliances as provided in subdivision  ten  of
    14  section 265.10 of the penal law.
    15    § 4. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
    16  any  provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
    17  the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or  of
    18  any  other  application of any provision of this act, which can be given
    19  effect without that provision or  application;  and  to  that  end,  the
    20  provisions and applications of this act are severable.
    21    §  5.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.