Assembly Bill A10557

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires firearms, rifles and shotguns to be manufactured or modified to be permanently incompatible with a rapid-fire modification device

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A10557 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§265.10, 265.01-c & 265.00, Pen L; add §369-eee, Gen Bus L

2021-A10557 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires firearms, rifles and shotguns to be manufactured or modified to be permanently incompatible with a rapid-fire modification device; requires manufacturers of such weapons to make such modifications to existing weapons at no cost to owners and dealers; gives owners one year to obtain compliance.

2021-A10557 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10557
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in  relation
   to requiring firearms, rifles and shotguns to be manufactured or modi-
   fied  to  be  permanently  incompatible with a rapid-fire modification
   device
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 265.10 of the penal law,
 subdivisions  1  and 2 as separately amended by chapters 34, 130 and 146
 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 130 of the  laws  of  2019,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  Any  person  who  manufactures  or  causes  to be manufactured any
 machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or
 disguised gun is guilty of a class D felony. Any person who manufactures
 or causes to be manufactured any rapid-fire modification device is guil-
 ty of a class E felony. ANY PERSON WHO  MANUFACTURES  OR  CAUSES  TO  BE
 MANUFACTURED A FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN THAT IS NOT MADE OR MODIFIED TO
 BE  PERMANENTLY  INCOMPATIBLE  WITH  A RAPID-FIRE MODIFICATION DEVICE IS
 GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY. Any person who manufactures or causes to  be
 manufactured any switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal knuckle
 knife, undetectable knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuckles,
 metal  knuckles,  Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag, sandclub or slung-
 shot is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
   2. Any person who transports or ships any machine-gun, firearm silenc-
 er, assault weapon  or  large  capacity  ammunition  feeding  device  or
 disguised  gun,  or  who transports or ships as merchandise five or more
 firearms, is guilty of a class D felony. Any person  who  transports  or
 ships  any rapid-fire modification device is guilty of a class E felony.
 ANY PERSON WHO TRANSPORTS OR SHIPS ANY FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN THAT IS
 NOT MADE OR MODIFIED TO BE PERMANENTLY INCOMPATIBLE  WITH  A  RAPID-FIRE
 MODIFICATION DEVICE IS GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY. Any person who trans-
 ports or ships as merchandise any firearm, other than an assault weapon,
 switchblade  knife,  pilum  ballistic  knife, undetectable knife, billy,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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