NY State Senate Bill 2025-S227

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2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1777
Current Committee:: Senate Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§265.10 & 265.00, Pen L; amd §700.05, CP L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S7364, A7489

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S227

SPONSOR: HOYLMAN-SIGAL
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in
relation to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To prohibit the use of three-dimensional printers to manufacture ghost
guns, silencers, magazines, or other firearm parts and to prohibit the
sale, distribution and distribution of the digital instructions to do
the same.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 265.10 of the penal law to include the use of
three-dimensional printer and the manufacture of ghost guns, silencers,
or other firearm components in the class D felony of manufacturing
firearms. Creates the class A misdemeanor of the intentional sale of
digital instructions for such manufacturing to a person in New York who

is not a registered or licensed gunsmith.

Section 2 amends section 265.00 of the penal law to add subdivision 36
defining the term "three-dimensional printer."

Section 3 amends subdivision 8 of section 700.05 of the criminal proce-
dure law to include the manufacture, transport, disposition, and deface-
ment of weapons and dangerous instruments in the definition of "desig-
nated offense" for eavesdropping and video surveillance warrants.

Section 4 establishes the severability of the bill.

Section 5 provides the effective date of the bill.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

So-called "ghost guns" --- unregistered, untraceable firearms and
firearm components --- continue to be a major threat to the safety of
New Yorkers, even after the Jose Webster Untraceable Firearms Act banned
the sale of such guns in our state in 2021. Nearly half of all untracea-
ble firearms recovered by New York in 2022 were ghost guns, and the New
York Police Department reports a 75% increase in the seizure of ghost
guns between 2021 and 2022. This is a growing trend: whereas in 2022 365
ghost guns were seized by the NYPD, that number was just 17 in 2018.

This bill would include the manufacture of ghost guns, unfinished gun
parts silencers, magazines, and other firearm components in the existing
class D felony of manufacture of a machine-gun or assault weapon and
clarify that that crime includes the manufacture of such items using a
three-dimensional printer. It would criminalize the intentional sale,
distribution, or disposal of digital instructions that may be used to
program a three-dimensional printer to produce such weapons. This will
ensure that New York's existing prohibition on the manufacture of ghost
guns is comprehensive, precise, and responsive to the technology perpe-
trators may use to commit that crime.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-24: S.7364 Referred to Codes

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become law.

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    227
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the  penal  law  and  the  criminal  procedure  law,  in
   relation to the regulation of three-dimensional printed 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  265.10  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by chapter 481 of the laws of 2024, is amended and a new subdi-
 vision 10 is added to read as follows:
   1. Any person who  manufactures  or  causes  to  be  manufactured  any
 machine-gun,  assault  weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device,
 GHOST  GUN, UNFINISHED FRAME OR RECEIVER, FIREARM SILENCER, MAGAZINE, OR
 MAJOR COMPONENT OF A FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN or disguised gun is guil-
 ty of a class D felony. Any person who  manufactures  or  causes  to  be
 manufactured  any  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, undetect-
 able  knife,  billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuckles, metal knuck-
 les, throwing star, chuka stick, sandbag, sandclub or slungshot is guil-
 ty of a class A misdemeanor.
   10. ANY PERSON WHO INTENTIONALLY SELLS, DISTRIBUTES, OR  DISPOSES  OF,
 BY  ANY  MEANS,  INCLUDING VIA THE INTERNET, DIGITAL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE
 FORM OF  COMPUTER-AIDED  DESIGN  FILES,  STANDARD  TRIANGLE/TESSELLATION
 LANGUAGE  FILES,  OR  OTHER  CODE  OR  INSTRUCTIONS  THAT MAY BE USED TO
 PROGRAM A  THREE-DIMENSIONAL  PRINTER  TO  MANUFACTURE  OR  PRODUCE  ANY
 MACHINE-GUN,  ASSAULT  WEAPON, LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE,
 DISGUISED GUN, GHOST GUN, UNFINISHED FRAME OR RECEIVER, FIREARM  SILENC-
 ER,  MAGAZINE,  OR  MAJOR COMPONENT OF A FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN, TO A
 PERSON IN NEW YORK WHO IS NOT REGISTERED OR LICENSED AS  A  GUNSMITH  AS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00770-01-5

 S. 227                              2
 
 PROVIDED  FOR  IN  SECTION  400.00 OF THIS CHAPTER WITH A TYPE 7 FEDERAL
 FIREARMS LICENSE, IS GUILTY OF A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 37 to read as follows:
   37.  "THREE-DIMENSIONAL  PRINTER"  MEANS A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER-DRIVEN
 MACHINE OR DEVICE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT FROM A
 DIGITAL MODEL.
   § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 700.05 of the criminal procedure law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
   (W)  MANUFACTURE, TRANSPORT, DISPOSITION AND DEFACEMENT OF WEAPONS AND
 DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS AND APPLIANCES AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION  TEN  OF
 SECTION 265.10 OF THE PENAL LAW.
   § 4. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
 any  provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or  of
 any  other  application of any provision of this act, which can be given
 effect without that provision or  application;  and  to  that  end,  the
 provisions and applications of this act are severable.
   §  5.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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Senate Bill S227

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

co-Sponsors

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Brad Hoylman-Sigal

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

co-Sponsors

Cordell Cleare

Patricia Fahy

Andrew Gounardes

Pete Harckham

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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