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Senate Bill S6918

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the possession, manufacture or sale of a trigger crank, a bump-fire device or other firing accelerators

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2017-S6918 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§265.01 & 265.10, Pen L; amd §§897 & 898, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S1337

2017-S6918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the possession, manufacture or sale of a trigger crank, a bump-fire device or other firing accelerators.

2017-S6918 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6918
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in  relation
   to the possession, manufacture or sale of a trigger crank, a bump-fire
   device or other firing accelerators

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 265.01 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   (9)  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF  CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON IN THE
 FOURTH  DEGREE  WHEN,  WITH  KNOWLEDGE  OF  THE  CHARACTER  THEREOF,  HE
 POSSESSES  A TRIGGER CRANK, A BUMP-FIRE DEVICE, OR ANY PART, COMBINATION
 OF PARTS, COMPONENT, DEVICE, ATTACHMENT, OR ACCESSORY WHICH IS  DESIGNED
 OR FUNCTIONS TO ACCELERATE THE RATE OF FIRE OF A SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE IN
 SUCH A WAY SO AS TO APPROXIMATE THE OPERATION OF A MACHINE-GUN.
   §  2.  Subdivisions  1  and  2  of section 265.10 of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 257 of the laws of  2008,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Any  person  who  manufactures  or  causes  to be manufactured any
 machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or
 disguised gun is guilty of a class D felony. ANY PERSON WHO MANUFACTURES
 OR CAUSES TO BE MANUFACTURED A TRIGGER CRANK, A BUMP-FIRE DEVICE, OR ANY
 PART, COMBINATION OF PARTS, COMPONENT, DEVICE, ATTACHMENT, OR  ACCESSORY
 WHICH IS DESIGNED OR FUNCTIONS TO ACCELERATE THE RATE OF FIRE OF A SEMI-
 AUTOMATIC  RIFLE  IN  SUCH A WAY SO AS TO APPROXIMATE THE OPERATION OF A
 MACHINE-GUN IS GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY. Any person  who  manufactures
 or causes to be manufactured any switchblade knife, gravity knife, pilum
 ballistic  knife, metal knuckle knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plas-
 tic knuckles, metal knuckles, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag,  sand-
 club or slungshot is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13595-02-7

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