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Senate Bill S8719

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport and disposition of trigger modification devices

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2017-S8719 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9958
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §265.01-c, amd §§265.10 & 265.20, Pen L

2017-S8719 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport and disposition of trigger modification devices; exemptions.

2017-S8719 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8719 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8719
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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  the
   possession, manufacture, transport and disposition of trigger  modifi-
   cation devices
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  265.01-c
 to read as follows:
 § 265.01-C CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A TRIGGER MODIFICATION DEVICE.
   A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A TRIGGER MODIFICATION
 DEVICE WHEN,  WITH  KNOWLEDGE  OF  THE  CHARACTER  THEREOF,  HE  OR  SHE
 POSSESSES  A  TRIGGER CRANK, A BUMP-FIRE DEVICE, OR OTHER COMBINATION OF
 PARTS, COMPONENT, DEVICE, ATTACHMENT OR ACCESSORY, WHICH IS DESIGNED  OR
 INTENDED  TO FUNCTION TO ACCELERATE THE RATE OF FIRE OF A FIREARM, RIFLE
 OR SHOTGUN IN SUCH A WAY SO AS TO  OPERATE  IN  THE  SAME  MANNER  AS  A
 MACHINE-GUN.
   CRIMINAL  POSSESSION  OF  A  TRIGGER  MODIFICATION DEVICE IS A CLASS A
 MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of  section  265.10  of  the  penal  law,
 subdivisions  1 and 2 as amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 2008, and
 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 189 of the laws of 2000, 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
 OTHER COMBINATION OF PARTS, COMPONENT, DEVICE, ATTACHMENT OR  ACCESSORY,
 WHICH IS DESIGNED OR INTENDED TO FUNCTION TO ACCELERATE THE RATE OF FIRE
 OF  A  FIREARM,  RIFLE  OR SHOTGUN IN SUCH A WAY SO AS TO OPERATE IN THE
 SAME MANNER AS 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,  plastic  knuckles,  metal knuckles, Kung Fu star,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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