Bill Text: NY S05000 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the purchase of firearms, rifles and shotguns.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-06 - SIGNED CHAP.236 [S05000 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05000-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5000--B
            Cal. No. 865

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
          to first and second report, ordered to a third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the purchase and disposal
          of firearms, rifles and shotguns

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

     1    Section  1.   Section 265.17 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1
     2  of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 265.17 Criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon.
     4    A person is guilty of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon when:
     5    1. Knowing that he or she is  prohibited  by  law  from  possessing  a
     6  firearm,  rifle  or  shotgun because of a prior conviction or because of
     7  some other disability which  would  render  him  or  her  ineligible  to
     8  lawfully  possess  a firearm, rifle or shotgun in this state, or knowing
     9  that he or she is the subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued
    10  upon the alleged commission of a felony or serious offense, such  person
    11  purchases or otherwise acquires a firearm, rifle or shotgun from another
    12  person; or
    13    2.  Knowing  that it would be unlawful for another person to possess a
    14  firearm, rifle or shotgun, or knowing that another person is the subject
    15  of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon the  alleged  commission
    16  of  a  felony  or  serious  offense,  he  or  she purchases or otherwise
    17  acquires a firearm, rifle or shotgun for, on behalf of, or for  the  use
    18  of such other person; or
    19    3.  Knowing that another person is prohibited by law from possessing a
    20  firearm, rifle or shotgun because of a prior conviction  or  because  of
    21  some  other  disability  which  would  render  him  or her ineligible to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09870-06-1
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     1  lawfully possess a firearm, rifle or shotgun in this state,  or  knowing
     2  that  another  person is the subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest
     3  issued upon the alleged commission of a felony  or  serious  offense,  a
     4  person disposes of a firearm, rifle or shotgun to such other person.
     5    Criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon is a class D felony.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.