STATE OF NEW YORK
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1508
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to firearms
designed to look like objects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 399-rr to read as follows:
3 § 399-rr. Firearms designed to look like objects; prohibited. (a) No
4 person, firm or corporation shall manufacture, import, sell, offer, give
5 or lend a firearm designed to look like an object other than a firearm,
6 including but not limited to, firearms designed to look like a pen or a
7 cellphone.
8 (b) Any person, firm or corporation who knowingly violates any
9 provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor
10 punishable as provided for in the penal law.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01268-01-7
