STATE OF NEW YORK
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4229
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DICKENS, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating the offense of
operating as a major firearms trafficker
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.46 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 265.46 Operating as a major firearms trafficker.
4 A person is guilty of operating as a major firearms trafficker when
5 such person:
6 (1) unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of to another
7 person or persons a total of twenty or more firearms in a period of not
8 more than one year; or
9 (2) unlawfully possesses with intent to sell twenty or more firearms.
10 Operating as a major firearms trafficker is a class A-I felony.
11 § 2. 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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