Bill Text: NY S01922 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the class A-I felony of operating as a major firearms trafficker.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01922-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1922

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, BENJAMIN, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating  the  offense  of
          operating as a major firearms trafficker

          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 a new section 265.46  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 265.46 Operating as a major firearms trafficker.
     4    A  person  is  guilty of operating as a major firearms trafficker when
     5  such person:
     6    (1) unlawfully sells, exchanges,  gives  or  disposes  of  to  another
     7  person  or persons a total of twenty or more firearms in a period of not
     8  more than one year; or
     9    (2) unlawfully possesses with intent to sell twenty or more firearms.
    10    Operating as a major firearms trafficker is a class A-I felony.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01891-01-1