Senate Bill S1209A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to removing the prohibition on firearm silencers

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • 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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2017-S1209 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5300
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0931, En Con L; amd §§265.00 & 265.02, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S287
2021-2022: S3196
2023-2024: S696

2017-S1209 - Summary

Removes the prohibition on firearm silencers.

2017-S1209 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1209 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1209
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the penal law  in
   relation  to  removing  prohibition  on  possession and use of firearm
   silencers

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-0931 of the environmental
 conservation law, the opening paragraph and subparagraph 1 of  paragraph
 c  as  amended by chapter 135 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. No person except a law enforcement officer in  the  performance  of
 his  official  duties  shall  use in hunting or possess in the fields or
 forests or on the waters of the state for any purpose:
   a. [the apparatus known as a silencer;
   b.] any automatic firearm, or any firearm which has been converted  to
 an  automatic  type,  or  any  firearm  which  has a built-in mechanical
 adjustment which will permit it to function as an automatic arm; or
   [c.] B. any auto-loading firearm of a  construction  to  contain  more
 than six shells in the magazine and chamber combined, except
   (1) such a firearm using twenty-two caliber rim-fire ammunition, or
   (2) such a firearm which has been altered so as to reduce its capacity
 to  not  more  than  six  shells at one time in the magazine and chamber
 combined, or
   (3) an auto-loading pistol having a barrel less than eight  inches  in
 length.
   [d.  An] C. AN automatic firearm is defined as one which will continue
 to fire as long as the trigger is held back. An auto-loading firearm  is
 defined  as  one  which reloads itself after each shot and requires that
 the trigger be pulled back for each shot.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04902-01-7
              

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2017-S1209A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5300
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0931, En Con L; amd §§265.00 & 265.02, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S287
2021-2022: S3196
2023-2024: S696

2017-S1209A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the prohibition on firearm silencers.

2017-S1209A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1209A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1209--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the penal law in
   relation to removing prohibition on  possession  and  use  of  firearm
   silencers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  11-0931  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law, the opening paragraph and subparagraph 1 of paragraph
 c as amended by chapter 135 of the laws of 1982, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  No  person  except a law enforcement officer in the performance of
 his official duties shall use in hunting or possess  in  the  fields  or
 forests or on the waters of the state for any purpose:
   a. [the apparatus known as a silencer;
   b.]  any automatic firearm, or any firearm which has been converted to
 an automatic type, or  any  firearm  which  has  a  built-in  mechanical
 adjustment which will permit it to function as an automatic arm; or
   [c.]  B.  any  auto-loading  firearm of a construction to contain more
 than six shells in the magazine and chamber combined, except
   (1) such a firearm using twenty-two caliber rim-fire ammunition, or
   (2) such a firearm which has been altered so as to reduce its capacity
 to not more than six shells at one time  in  the  magazine  and  chamber
 combined, or
   (3)  an  auto-loading pistol having a barrel less than eight inches in
 length.
   [d. An] C. AN automatic firearm is defined as one which will  continue
 to  fire as long as the trigger is held back. An auto-loading firearm is
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04902-02-7
              

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