Bill Text: NY A09817 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9817 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to firearms designed to look like objects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - reported referred to codes [A09817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09817-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         9817--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, PAULIN, BICHOTTE, DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, COLTON,
          WEPRIN,  ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, MOSLEY, LAVINE, BUCHWALD, STECK, KEARNS --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GLICK, SKARTADOS  --  read
          once  and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business  law, in relation to firearms
          designed to look like objects
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-rr to read as follows:
     3    §  399-rr.  Firearms designed to look like objects; prohibited. (a) No
     4  person, firm or corporation shall manufacture, import, sell, offer, give
     5  or lend a firearm designed to look like an object other than a  firearm,
     6  including  but not limited to, firearms designed to look like a pen or a
     7  cellphone.
     8    (b) Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  who  knowingly  violates  any
     9  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be guilty of a class A misdemeanor
    10  punishable as provided for in the penal law.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14967-02-6