Assembly Bill A436

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Classifies pistol converters as a rapid-fire modification device

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2025-A436 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S744
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.00, Pen L

2025-A436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes pistol converters in the definition of a rapid-fire modification device.

2025-A436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    436
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  penal  law,  in  relation  to  classifying  pistol
   converters as 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. Subdivision 26 of section 265.00 of the penal law, as added
 by chapter 130 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   26. "Rapid-fire modification device" means  any  bump  stock,  trigger
 crank, binary trigger system, burst trigger system, PISTOL CONVERTER, or
 any  other  device  that is designed to accelerate the rate of fire of a
 semi-automatic firearm, rifle or shotgun.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the penal law and the
 general business law relating  to  pistol  converters,  as  proposed  in
 legislative bills numbers S. 7365-B and A. 10053-A, takes effect.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02675-01-5

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