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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7489--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, JEAN-PIERRE, SIMONE,
DARLING, BURDICK, THIELE, SAYEGH, STECK -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 265.10 of the penal law, as sepa-
2 rately amended by chapters 34, 130 and 146 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended and a new subdivision 10 is added to read as follows:
4 1. Any person who manufactures or causes to be manufactured any
5 machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device,
6 ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silencer, magazine, or
7 major component of a firearm, rifle or shotgun or disguised gun is guil-
8 ty of a class D felony. Any person who manufactures or causes to be
9 manufactured any rapid-fire modification device is guilty of a class E
10 felony. Any person who manufactures or causes to be manufactured any
11 switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal knuckle knife, undetect-
12 able knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuckles, metal knuck-
13 les, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag, sandclub or slungshot is guilty
14 of a class A misdemeanor.
15 10. Any person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of,
16 by any means, including via the internet, digital instructions in the
17 form of computer-aided design files, standard triangle/tessellation
18 language files, or other code or instructions that may be used to
19 program a three-dimensional printer to manufacture or produce any
20 machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device,
21 disguised gun, ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silenc-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 er, magazine, or major component of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, to a
2 person in New York who is not registered or licensed as a gunsmith as
3 provided for in section 400.00 of this chapter with a Type 7 Federal
4 Firearms License, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
5 § 2. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
6 vision 36 to read as follows:
7 36. "Three-dimensional printer" means a computer or computer-driven
8 machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a
9 digital model.
10 § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 700.05 of the criminal procedure law is
11 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
12 (w) Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and
13 dangerous instruments and appliances as provided in subdivision ten of
14 section 265.10 of the penal law.
15 § 4. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
16 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
17 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or of
18 any other application of any provision of this act, which can be given
19 effect without that provision or application; and to that end, the
20 provisions and applications of this act are severable.
21 § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
