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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting persons named
  on the No Fly List maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center admin-
  istered by the Federal  Bureau  of  Investigation  from  obtaining  or
  renewing a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  400.00  of  the  penal  law,  as
amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this
section  except  by  the licensing officer, and then only after investi-
gation and finding that all statements in a  proper  application  for  a
license  are  true.  No license shall be issued or renewed except for an
applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however,  that
where  such  applicant  has  been  honorably  discharged from the United
States army, navy, marine corps,  air  force  or  coast  guard,  or  the
national  guard  of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall
apply; (b) of good moral character;  (c)  who  has  not  been  convicted
anywhere  of  a  felony  or a serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive
from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user  of  or  addicted  to  any
controlled  substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being
an alien (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or (ii)
has not been admitted to the United States  under  a  nonimmigrant  visa
subject  to  the  exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not been
discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h) who,
having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his or her
citizenship; (i) who has stated whether he or she has ever suffered  any
mental illness; (j) who has not been involuntarily committed to a facil-
ity  under  the  jurisdiction  of  an office of the department of mental
hygiene pursuant to article nine or fifteen of the mental  hygiene  law,
article seven hundred thirty or section 330.20 of the criminal procedure
law,  section  four  hundred two or five hundred eight of the correction
law, section 322.2 or 353.4 of the family court act,  or  has  not  been

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

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civilly  confined in a secure treatment facility pursuant to article ten
of the mental hygiene law; (k) who has not had a license revoked or  who
is  not under a suspension or ineligibility order issued pursuant to the
provisions  of  section  530.14 of the criminal procedure law or section
eight hundred forty-two-a of the family court act; (l) in the county  of
Westchester, who has successfully completed a firearms safety course and
test  as  evidenced  by a certificate of completion issued in his or her
name and endorsed and affirmed under the penalties of perjury by a  duly
authorized  instructor,  except  that:  (i)  persons  who  are honorably
discharged from the United States army,  navy,  marine  corps  or  coast
guard,  or  of  the national guard of the state of New York, and produce
evidence of official  qualification  in  firearms  during  the  term  of
service  are  not  required  to have completed those hours of a firearms
safety course pertaining to the safe use, carrying, possession,  mainte-
nance  and  storage  of a firearm; and (ii) persons who were licensed to
possess a pistol or revolver prior to the effective date of  this  para-
graph  are  not  required to have completed a firearms safety course and
test; (m) who has not had a guardian appointed for him or  her  pursuant
to any provision of state law, based on a determination that as a result
of  marked subnormal intelligence, mental illness, incapacity, condition
or disease, he or she lacks the mental capacity to  contract  or  manage
his  or  her  own affairs; [and] (n) WHO IS NOT NAMED ON THE NO FLY LIST
MAINTAINED BY THE TERRORIST SCREENING CENTER ADMINISTERED BY THE FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION; AND (O) concerning whom no  good  cause  exists
for the denial of the license. No person shall engage in the business of
gunsmith or dealer in firearms unless licensed pursuant to this section.
An  applicant  to engage in such business shall also be a citizen of the
United States, more than twenty-one years of age and maintain a place of
business in the city or county where the license  is  issued.  For  such
business, if the applicant is a firm or partnership, each member thereof
shall  comply with all of the requirements set forth in this subdivision
and if the applicant is a corporation, each  officer  thereof  shall  so
comply.
  S  2.  Subdivision 4 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as amended by
chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
  4. Investigation. Before a license is issued or renewed,  there  shall
be an investigation of all statements required in the application by the
duly  constituted police authorities of the locality where such applica-
tion is made, including but not limited to such records as may be acces-
sible to the division of state police or division  of  criminal  justice
services  pursuant  to section 400.02 of this article. For that purpose,
the records of the  appropriate  office  of  the  department  of  mental
hygiene  concerning  previous or present mental illness of the applicant
shall be available for inspection by the investigating  officer  of  the
police  authority.  In  order to ascertain any previous criminal record,
the investigating officer  shall  take  the  fingerprints  and  physical
descriptive  data in quadruplicate of each individual by whom the appli-
cation is signed and verified. Two copies of such fingerprints shall  be
taken  on  standard  fingerprint cards eight inches square, and one copy
may be taken on a card supplied for that purpose by the  federal  bureau
of  investigation;  provided,  however,  that in the case of a corporate
applicant that has already been issued a dealer in firearms license  and
seeks  to  operate  a  firearm  dealership  at  a  second  or subsequent
location, the original fingerprints on file may be used to ascertain any
criminal record in the second or subsequent application  unless  any  of
the  corporate  officers  have  changed  since the prior application, in

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which case the  new  corporate  officer  shall  comply  with  procedures
governing  an  initial application for such license. When completed, one
standard card shall be forwarded to and  retained  by  the  division  of
criminal  justice  services  in  the  executive department, at Albany. A
search of the files of such division and  written  notification  of  the
results of the search to the investigating officer shall be made without
unnecessary  delay. Thereafter, such division shall notify the licensing
officer and the executive department, division of state police,  Albany,
of  any criminal record of the applicant filed therein subsequent to the
search of its files. A second standard card, or the one supplied by  the
federal  bureau of investigation, as the case may be, shall be forwarded
to that bureau at Washington with  a  request  that  the  files  of  the
bureau,  INCLUDING THE NO FLY LIST MAINTAINED BY THE TERRORIST SCREENING
CENTER, be searched and notification of the results  of  the  search  be
made to the investigating police authority. Of the remaining two finger-
print  cards, one shall be filed with the executive department, division
of state police, Albany, within ten days after issuance of the  license,
and the other remain on file with the investigating police authority. No
such  fingerprints  may  be  inspected  by any person other than a peace
officer, who is acting pursuant to his special duties, or a police offi-
cer, except on order of a judge or justice of a court of  record  either
upon  notice  to the licensee or without notice, as the judge or justice
may deem appropriate. Upon completion of the investigation,  the  police
authority  shall  report  the  results  to the licensing officer without
unnecessary delay.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.