Prohibits the criminal possession of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols by persons under the age of twenty-one unless such person was eighteen prior to January 1, 2023.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9480
IN SENATE
June 3, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession of
semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols by persons under the age of
twenty-one
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 265.01 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 (11) He or she possesses a semiautomatic rifle, a semiautomatic shot-
4 gun or a semiautomatic pistol defined in subdivision twenty-one of
5 section 265.00 of this article and is under the age of twenty-one years
6 old, except if he or she was over the age of eighteen prior to January
7 first, two thousand twenty-three.
8 § 2. Section 265.10 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
9 vision 9 to read as follows:
10 9. Any person who disposes of any semiautomatic rifle, semiautomatic
11 shotgun or semiautomatic pistol defined in subdivision twenty-one of
12 section 265.00 of this article to any other person under the age of
13 twenty-one years is guilty of a class A misdemeanor unless such other
14 person was over the age of eighteen prior to January first, two thousand
15 twenty-three.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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