STATE OF NEW YORK
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381--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in
relation to establishing crimes relating to the criminal possession or
manufacture of undetectable firearms, rifles or shotguns
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 two
2 new subdivisions 3-a and 26 to read as follows:
3 3-a. "Major component of a firearm, rifle, or shotgun" means the
4 barrel, the slide or cylinder, the frame, or receiver of the firearm,
5 rifle, or shotgun.
6 26. "Undetectable" means not detectable by an X-ray machine, portable
7 pulsed x-ray generator, metal detector or magnetometer when set at a
8 standard calibration, or any other machine used to screen or inspect a
9 person and an object for a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.
10 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 265.50 and
11 265.55 to read as follows:
12 § 265.50 Criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable
13 firearm.
14 A person is guilty of criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an
15 undetectable firearm when he or she knowingly manufactures, causes to be
16 manufactured, sells, exchanges, gives, disposes of, transports, ships,
17 or possesses with the intent to sell:
18 1. any firearm, rifle, or shotgun that, after removal of grips, stocks
19 and magazines, is undetectable; or
20 2. any major component of a firearm, rifle, or shotgun which is unde-
21 tectable.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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