STATE OF NEW YORK
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8456--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 16, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules
Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to preventing certain people
from lawfully possessing certain rifles, shotguns, and firearms
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 265.01 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 1041 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
3 (4) He possesses a rifle [or], shotgun, antique firearm, black powder
4 rifle, black powder shotgun, or any muzzle-loading firearm, and has been
5 convicted of a felony or serious offense; or
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
7 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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