Bill Text: NY S07829 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7829 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires a national instant criminal background check to be conducted on each individual who purchases ammunition; requires dealer to forward information on such sale to the division of criminal justice services; makes a violation of such provisions a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-08-01 - REFERRED TO RULES [S07829 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07829-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7829
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    August 1, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  requiring  a
         national  instant  criminal  background  check to be conducted on each
         person purchasing ammunition
         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 article
    2  38-B to read as follows:
    3                                ARTICLE 38-B
    4                             SALE OF AMMUNITION
    5  SECTION 825. SALE OF AMMUNITION.
    6    S  825.  SALE  OF  AMMUNITION.  1.  PRIOR  TO THE SALE OR TRANSFER, AT
    7  RETAIL, OF ANY QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION TO AN INDIVIDUAL, THE RETAIL DEAL-
    8  ER OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL SHALL CAUSE A NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND
    9  CHECK TO BE CONDUCTED UPON SUCH PERSON IN ACCORDANCE WITH  18  U.S.C.  S
   10  922.
   11    2. UPON THE SALE OR TRANSFER OF ANY QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION, AT RETAIL,
   12  THE  RETAIL  DEALER  SHALL  RECORD  THE NAME, ADDRESS, DATE OF BIRTH AND
   13  TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE PURCHASER, AND THE  QUANTITY,  BRAND,  TYPE  AND
   14  CALIBER  OR  GAUGE  OF  THE  AMMUNITION PURCHASED OR TRANSFERRED. WITHIN
   15  THREE DAYS OF EACH PURCHASE OR TRANSFER OF SUCH AMMUNITION,  THE  RETAIL
   16  DEALER SHALL FORWARD A COPY OF SUCH INFORMATION TO THE DIVISION OF CRIM-
   17  INAL  JUSTICE SERVICES. SUCH DEALER SHALL MAINTAIN SUCH RECORDS UPON THE
   18  PREMISES OF THE BUSINESS FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN SEVEN YEARS.
   19    3. ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE
   20  GUILTY OF A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   21    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January 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.
                                                                  LBD16411-02-2