STATE OF NEW YORK
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6304
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 6, 2016
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Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, DILAN, KRUEGER, SERRANO -- 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 prohibiting persons named
on the No Fly List maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center admin-
istered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from obtaining or
renewing a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of 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 400.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this
4 section except by the licensing officer, and then only after investi-
5 gation and finding that all statements in a proper application for a
6 license are true. No license shall be issued or renewed except for an
7 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however, that
8 where such applicant has been honorably discharged from the United
9 States army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or the
10 national guard of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall
11 apply; (b) of good moral character; (c) who has not been convicted
12 anywhere of a felony or a serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive
13 from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any
14 controlled substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being
15 an alien (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or (ii)
16 has not been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa
17 subject to the exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not been
18 discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h) who,
19 having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his or her
20 citizenship; (i) who has stated whether he or she has ever suffered any
21 mental illness; (j) who has not been involuntarily committed to a facil-
22 ity under the jurisdiction of an office of the department of mental
23 hygiene pursuant to article nine or fifteen of the mental hygiene law,
24 article seven hundred thirty or section 330.20 of the criminal procedure
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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