STATE OF NEW YORK
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7365--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted
to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in relation
to pistol converters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 36 to read as follows:
3 36. "Pistol converter" means any device or instrument that when
4 installed in or attached to the slide of a semi-automatic pistol inter-
5 feres with the trigger mechanism and thereby enables the pistol to
6 discharge a number of shots or bullets rapidly or automatically with one
7 continuous pull of the trigger.
8 § 2. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 898-a of the general business
9 law, as added by chapter 237 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as
10 follows:
11 2. "Reasonable controls and procedures" shall mean policies that
12 include, but are not limited to: (a) instituting screening, security,
13 inventory and other business practices to prevent thefts of qualified
14 products as well as sales of qualified products to straw purchasers,
15 traffickers, persons prohibited from possessing firearms under state or
16 federal law, or persons at risk of injuring themselves or others; [and]
17 (b) preventing deceptive acts and practices and false advertising and
18 otherwise ensuring compliance with all provisions of article
19 twenty-two-A of this chapter; and (c) taking reasonable steps to prevent
20 the installation and use of a pistol converter, as defined in section
21 265.00 of the penal law, on qualified products.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 6. "Qualified product" shall [have the same meaning as defined in 15
2 U.S.C. section 7903(4)] mean a firearm (as defined in subparagraph (A)
3 or (B) of 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(3)), including any antique firearm (as
4 defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(16)), or ammunition (as defined in 18
5 U.S.C. § 921(a)(17)(A)), or a component part of a firearm or ammunition.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
