Assembly Bill A202

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Adds ammunition to the list of prohibited items to purchase or dispose of after certain convictions

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2025-A202 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S626
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.17, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8575, S7299
2021-2022: A383, S3545
2023-2024: A659, S1892

2025-A202 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to adding ammunition to the list of prohibited items to purchase or dispose of after certain convictions.

2025-A202 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    202
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, WEPRIN, OTIS, RAMOS, STECK, McDONOUGH,
   SAYEGH, ROSENTHAL, JACOBSON, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of
   A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to adding ammunition to the
   list of prohibited items to  purchase  or  dispose  of  after  certain
   convictions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 265.17 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  236
 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 § 265.17 Criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon OR AMMUNITION.
   A  person  is  guilty  of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon OR
 AMMUNITION when:
   1. Knowing that [he or she] SUCH PERSON  is  prohibited  by  law  from
 possessing  a  firearm,  rifle  [or], shotgun OR AMMUNITION because of a
 prior conviction or because of some other disability which would  render
 [him or her] SUCH PERSON ineligible to lawfully possess a firearm, rifle
 [or],  shotgun  OR AMMUNITION in this state, or knowing that [he or she]
 SUCH PERSON is the subject of an outstanding warrant  of  arrest  issued
 upon  the alleged commission of a felony or serious offense, such person
 purchases or otherwise acquires a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR  AMMU-
 NITION from another person; or
   2.  Knowing  that it would be unlawful for another person to possess a
 firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR  AMMUNITION,  or  knowing  that  another
 person  is  the  subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon
 the alleged commission of a felony or serious offense, [he or she]  SUCH
 PERSON purchases or otherwise acquires a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR
 AMMUNITION for, on behalf of, or for the use of such other person; or
   3.  Knowing that another person is prohibited by law from possessing a
 firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR AMMUNITION because of a prior conviction
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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