Assembly Bill A5834A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a private right of action against gun industry members for marketing firearms and firearm related products to minors

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    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A5834 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8125
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§898-a & 898-b, Gen Bus L

2023-A5834 - Summary

Prohibits gun industry members from marketing firearms and firearm related products to minors; excepts instances where marketing is geared toward hunting purposes; establishes a private right of action for violations.

2023-A5834 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5834
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to establishing  a
   private  right  of  action  against gun industry members for marketing
   firearms and firearm related products to minors

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 898-a of the general business law,
 as  added  by  chapter  237 of the laws of 2021, is amended and four new
 subdivisions 7, 8, 9 and 10 are added to read as follows:
   2. "Reasonable controls  and  procedures"  shall  mean  policies  that
 include,  but  are  not limited to: (a) instituting screening, security,
 inventory and other business practices to prevent  thefts  of  qualified
 products  as  well  as  sales of qualified products to straw purchasers,
 traffickers, persons prohibited from possessing firearms under state  or
 federal  law, or persons at risk of injuring themselves or others; [and]
 (b) preventing deceptive acts and practices and  false  advertising  and
 otherwise   ensuring   compliance   with   all   provisions  of  article
 twenty-two-A of this  chapter;  AND  (C)  PREVENTING  THE  MARKETING  OF
 FIREARMS  AND  FIREARM  RELATED PRODUCTS TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE AGE OF
 EIGHTEEN.
   7. "FIREARM ACCESSORY" SHALL MEAN AN ATTACHMENT OR DEVICE DESIGNED  OR
 ADAPTED TO BE INSERTED INTO, AFFIXED ONTO, OR USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A
 FIREARM THAT IS DESIGNED, INTENDED, OR FUNCTIONS TO ALTER OR ENHANCE THE
 FIRING  CAPABILITIES  OF  A  FIREARM, THE LETHALITY OF THE FIREARM, OR A
 SHOOTER'S ABILITY TO HOLD AND USE A FIREARM, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER  SUCH
 ACCESSORY HAS BEEN SHIPPED OR TRANSPORTED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
   8.  "FIREARM  PRECURSOR PART" SHALL MEAN A COMPONENT OF A FIREARM THAT
 IS NECESSARY TO BUILD OR ASSEMBLE A FIREARM AND IS DESCRIBED IN  ANY  OF
 THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02755-02-3
 A. 5834                             2
              

2023-A5834A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8125
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§898-a & 898-b, Gen Bus L

2023-A5834A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits gun industry members from marketing firearms and firearm related products to minors; excepts instances where marketing is geared toward hunting purposes; establishes a private right of action for violations.

2023-A5834A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5834--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development -- recommitted to the  Committee  on
   Economic  Development  in  accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to establishing a
   private right of action against gun  industry  members  for  marketing
   firearms and firearm related products to minors
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 898-a of the general  busi-
 ness  law,  as added by chapter 237 of the laws of 2021, are amended and
 four new subdivisions 7, 8, 9 and 10 are added to read as follows:
   2. "Reasonable controls  and  procedures"  shall  mean  policies  that
 include,  but  are  not limited to: (a) instituting screening, security,
 inventory and other business practices to prevent  thefts  of  qualified
 products  as  well  as  sales of qualified products to straw purchasers,
 traffickers, persons prohibited from possessing firearms under state  or
 federal  law, or persons at risk of injuring themselves or others; [and]
 (b) preventing deceptive acts and practices and  false  advertising  and
 otherwise   ensuring   compliance   with   all   provisions  of  article
 twenty-two-A of this  chapter;  AND  (C)  PREVENTING  THE  MARKETING  OF
 FIREARMS  AND  FIREARM  RELATED PRODUCTS TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE AGE OF
 EIGHTEEN.
   6. "Qualified product" shall [have the same meaning as defined  in  15
 U.S.C.  section  7903(4)] MEAN A FIREARM, AS DEFINED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (A)
 OR (B) OF 18 U.S.C. SECTION 921(A)(3), INCLUDING ANY ANTIQUE FIREARM, AS
 DEFINED IN 18 U.S.C. SECTION 921(A)(16), OR AMMUNITION, AS DEFINED IN 18
 U.S.C. SECTION 921(A)(17)(A), OR A FIREARM RELATED PRODUCT.
   7. "FIREARM ACCESSORY" SHALL MEAN AN ATTACHMENT OR DEVICE DESIGNED  OR
 ADAPTED TO BE INSERTED INTO, AFFIXED ONTO, OR USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02755-03-3
              

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