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                                   1251
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JAFFEE, ENGLEBRIGHT, L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, ORTIZ,
   WEPRIN, STECK, COOK, D'URSO, GOTTFRIED, FAHY, DINOWITZ --  Multi-Spon-
   sored by -- M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to requiring semiautomatic
   pistols manufactured or delivered to any licensed dealer in this state
   to be capable of microstamping ammunition
 
   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 and may be cited as
 the "crime gun identification act of 2019".
   § 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature  finds  that  in
 2005,  the  national clearance rate for homicide cases was approximately
 60% and over 3,000 gun homicide cases went unsolved;  that  in  approxi-
 mately half of gun homicide investigations a spent cartridge casing, but
 not  a firearm, is recovered at the crime scene; that currently deployed
 national ballistic identification systems  cannot  identify  the  serial
 number  of  a gun unless the gun itself has been recovered; that firearm
 microstamping is a revolutionary forensic technology  that  produces  an
 identifiable  alpha-numeric  and  geometric  code  onto  the rear of the
 cartridge casing each time a semiautomatic pistol  is  fired;  that  the
 alpha-numeric  and  geometric  code on an expended cartridge casing will
 provide an initial lead for law enforcement by enabling law  enforcement
 to  match the cartridge casing found at a crime to the original owner of
 the firearm; that information from completed crime  gun  tracing  is  an
 important  element utilized by COMPSTAT and other crime analysis systems
 to target illegal firearms trafficking;  that  microstamping  technology
 continues  to  produce  identifiable  markings  onto  expended cartridge
 casings even after thousands of rounds of testing; that this  additional
 tool  will  help  law  enforcement  investigate illegal gun trafficking,
 close firearm-related criminal cases and protect the  public;  and  that
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 legislative action is necessary to require all new semiautomatic pistols
 sold after January 1, 2021 to be microstamp-ready.
   §  3.  Section  265.00  of  the penal law is amended by adding two new
 subdivisions 26 and 27 to read as follows:
   26. "MICROSTAMP-READY", WHEN USED WITH REFERENCE  TO  A  SEMIAUTOMATIC
 PISTOL,  MEANS  THAT  SUCH  PISTOL  IS  MANUFACTURED TO PRODUCE A UNIQUE
 ALPHA-NUMERIC OR GEOMETRIC CODE  ON  AT  LEAST  TWO  LOCATIONS  ON  EACH
 EXPENDED  CARTRIDGE  CASE  THAT  IDENTIFIES  THE MAKE, MODEL, AND SERIAL
 NUMBER OF THE PISTOL.
   27. "MICROSTAMPING COMPONENT OR MECHANISM", WHEN USED  WITH  REFERENCE
 TO A SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL, MEANS A COMPONENT OR MECHANISM OF SUCH PISTOL
 DESIGNED  AND  INTENDED  TO  PRODUCE A UNIQUE ALPHA-NUMERIC OR GEOMETRIC
 CODE ON AN EXPENDED CARTRIDGE THAT IDENTIFIES THE MAKE, MODEL, AND SERI-
 AL NUMBER OF THE PISTOL.
   § 4. Subdivision 6 of section 265.10 of the penal law, as  amended  by
 chapter 189 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
   6. (A) Any person who wilfully defaces any machine-gun, large capacity
 ammunition feeding device or firearm, INCLUDING DEFACING A MICROSTAMPING
 COMPONENT OR MECHANISM OF A SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL, is guilty of a class D
 felony.
   (B) ANY DEALER IN FIREARMS LICENSED UNDER SECTION 400.00 OF THIS CHAP-
 TER  WHO SELLS, OFFERS FOR SALE, EXCHANGES, GIVES, TRANSFERS OR DELIVERS
 A SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL, KNOWING THAT A MICROSTAMPING COMPONENT OR  MECH-
 ANISM  OF SUCH PISTOL HAS BEEN DEFACED, IS GUILTY OF A CLASS A MISDEMEA-
 NOR. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, DEFACING A  SEMIAUTOMATIC  PISTOL
 DOES  NOT  INCLUDE  (1)  MODIFYING  A  SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL TO RENDER IT
 MICROSTAMP-READY OR (2) REPLACING THE  FIRING  PIN  OF  A  SEMIAUTOMATIC
 PISTOL  THAT  IS MICROSTAMP-READY WHEN SUCH PIN IS DAMAGED OR IN NEED OF
 REPLACEMENT FOR THE SAFE USE OF SUCH PISTOL, OR REPLACING SUCH PIN FOR A
 LEGITIMATE SPORTING PURPOSE.
   § 5. The penal law is amended by adding two new  sections  265.38  and
 265.39 to read as follows:
 § 265.38 MICROSTAMPING OF SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS; PENALTIES.
   IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL:
   1.  FOR  ANY  DEALER IN FIREARMS LICENSED UNDER SECTION 400.00 OF THIS
 CHAPTER, TO SELL, OFFER FOR SALE, EXCHANGE, GIVE, TRANSFER OR DELIVER  A
 SEMIAUTOMATIC  PISTOL  MANUFACTURED ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOU-
 SAND TWENTY-ONE TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN A DEALER  IN  FIREARMS,  UNLESS
 SUCH PISTOL IS MICROSTAMP-READY; OR
   2.  FOR ANY MANUFACTURER OR WHOLESALE DEALER TO DELIVER OR CAUSE TO BE
 DELIVERED TO ANY PERSON IN THIS STATE, A SEMIAUTOMATIC  PISTOL  MANUFAC-
 TURED  AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, UNLESS THE MANUFAC-
 TURER CERTIFIES TO SUCH PERSON AT THE TIME OF SUCH DELIVERY, IN  ACCORD-
 ANCE  WITH  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE DIVISION OF STATE
 POLICE, THAT SUCH PISTOL IS MICROSTAMP-READY. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS
 SHALL INCLUDE A REQUIREMENT THAT, AS  PART  OF  THE  CERTIFICATION,  THE
 MANUFACTURER  SHALL  PROVIDE  THE  MAKE,  MODEL AND SERIAL NUMBER OF THE
 PISTOL.
   A VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS SECTION IS A CLASS B MISDEMEANOR;
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT A PERSON, INCLUDING A DEALER IN FIREARMS, WHOLE-
 SALE DEALER OR A  MANUFACTURER,  WHO  VIOLATES  ANY  PROVISION  OF  THIS
 SECTION   AFTER  HAVING  PREVIOUSLY  BEEN  CONVICTED  OF  VIOLATING  ANY
 PROVISION OF THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
 § 265.39 MICROSTAMPING OF SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS; AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE.
   IN ANY PROSECUTION UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF  SECTION  265.38  OF  THIS
 ARTICLE,  IT  IS  AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE THAT THE DEALER IN FIREARMS, AT

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 THE TIME OF SALE, OFFER FOR SALE, EXCHANGE, GIVING, TRANSFER OR DELIVERY
 OF THE SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL, WAS IN POSSESSION OF:
   1.  A  CERTIFICATION  FROM  THE  MANUFACTURER OF SUCH PISTOL DELIVERED
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 265.38 OF THIS ARTICLE, THAT SUCH
 PISTOL IS MICROSTAMP-READY; OR
   2. AN EXACT COPY OF SUCH  CERTIFICATION  OBTAINED  BY  THE  DEALER  IN
 FIREARMS  FROM SUCH MANUFACTURER IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE RULES AND
 REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE DIVISION OF STATE POLICE.
   THE DIVISION OF STATE POLICE SHALL PROMULGATE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS
 GOVERNING  PROCEDURES  AND  STANDARDS FOR EXACT COPIES OF CERTIFICATIONS
 AND THE OBTAINING OF SUCH COPIES BY A DEALER IN FIREARMS FROM A MANUFAC-
 TURER FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION.
   § 6. Subdivision 5 of section 265.15 of the penal law, as  amended  by
 chapter 695 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  The  possession  by  any person of a defaced machine-gun, firearm,
 rifle or shotgun is presumptive evidence that such  person  defaced  the
 same;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  NOT APPLY TO
 POSSESSION OF  A  SEMIAUTOMATIC  PISTOL  WHERE  THE  DEFACEMENT  ALLEGED
 CONSISTS  OF  DEFACING  A  MICROSTAMPING  COMPONENT OR MECHANISM OF SUCH
 PISTOL.
   § 7. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021, or at such time  that
 the  superintendent of the state police has received written notice from
 one or more microstamp job shops that such shop or shops are willing and
 prepared to produce microstamp structures on two internal surfaces of  a
 semiautomatic  pistol  as defined in subdivision 26 of section 265.00 of
 the penal law for a price of twelve dollars  or  less  at  a  production
 level  of one thousand semiautomatic pistols per batch, whichever occurs
 later; provided that the division  of  state  police  shall  notify  the
 legislative  bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of the receipt
 of the written notice provided for in this section  in  order  that  the
 commission  may  maintain  an accurate and timely effective data base of
 the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
 effectuating the provisions of this  act,  and  provided  further,  that
 effective  immediately  the  superintendent  of  the  state police shall
 promulgate rules and regulations necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this act.