Senate Bill S1486

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to a ban on undetectable firearms, undetectable firearm receivers and undetectable ammunition magazines

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1486 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7070
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §265.50, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7107, A7587
2017-2018: S3277, A2947
2019-2020: S4380, A451

2015-S1486 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to a ban on undetectable firearms, undetectable firearm receivers and undetectable ammunition magazines.

2015-S1486 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1486 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1486

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  a  ban  on  undetectable
  firearms,  undetectable  firearm receivers and undetectable ammunition
  magazines

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Short title. This act shall be known as the "undetectable
firearms act".
  S 2. Findings. The legislature finds that:
  (1) Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows that more  than  fifty-
seven  percent  of  the  murders that occurred in New York state in 2011
were perpetrated with a firearm;
  (2) digital manufacturing technologies, including  computer  numerical
control  mills,  3-dimensional  printers  and laser cutting machines are
quickly advancing so that they may soon be used to fabricate fully oper-
ational firearm components; and
  (3) some commercially available digital manufacturing technologies can
manufacture these components using materials that cannot be detected  by
traditional metal detectors or x-ray imaging machines.
  S  3.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.50 to read
as follows:
S 265.50 BAN ON UNDETECTABLE FIREARMS,  UNDETECTABLE  FIREARM  RECEIVERS
           AND UNDETECTABLE AMMUNITION MAGAZINES.
  1.  IT  SHALL  BE  UNLAWFUL  FOR  ANY PERSON TO KNOWINGLY MANUFACTURE,
IMPORT, SELL, SHIP, DELIVER, TRANSFER, RECEIVE OR POSSESS:
  (A) ANY FIREARM:
  (I) THAT, AFTER REMOVAL OF GRIPS, STOCKS AND MAGAZINES, IS NOT DETECT-
ABLE BY WALK-THROUGH METAL DETECTORS; OR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06550-01-5

S. 1486                             2
              

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