Bill Text: NY A00674 | 2019-2020 | 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 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A00674 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00674-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           674
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD03708-01-9