STATE OF NEW YORK
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1922
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, BENJAMIN, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN -- 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 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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