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Assembly Bill A1421

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to reporting duties of law enforcement with respect to certain seized and recovered firearms and shell casings

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2019-A1421 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11322
2021-2022: A2329

2019-A1421 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all law enforcement to report information regarding certain firearms to the National Crime Information Center; further requires law enforcement to test-fire seized firearms and submit the resulting ballistics information to the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network and to also submit to the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network ballistics information regarding spent shell casings found at crime scenes.

2019-A1421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1421
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON, DINOWITZ, WEPRIN, GOTTFRIED, EPSTEIN,
   ORTIZ, HUNTER, D'URSO, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to reporting  duties  of  law
   enforcement  with respect to certain seized and recovered firearms and
   spent shell casings

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The section heading of section 400.10 of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 Report of theft or loss of  a  firearm,  rifle  or  shotgun;  ADDITIONAL
            REPORTING DUTIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
   §  2.  Subdivision  3 of section 400.10 of the penal law is renumbered
 subdivision 4 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
   3. (A) WHENEVER A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SEIZES OR RECOVERS A FIREARM,
 RIFLE OR SHOTGUN,  THE    AGENCY  SHALL,  WITHIN  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS  OF
 SEIZURE,  ENTER  THE  MAKE,  MODEL,  CALIBER  AND  SERIAL NUMBER OF SUCH
 FIREARM INTO THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER TO DETERMINE  WHETHER
 SUCH FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN WAS REPORTED STOLEN.
   (B)  WHENEVER  A  LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SEIZES OR RECOVERS A FIREARM,
 RIFLE OR SHOTGUN THAT WAS UNLAWFULLY POSSESSED,  USED  FOR  AN  UNLAWFUL
 PURPOSE,  RECOVERED FROM THE SCENE OF A CRIME, IS REASONABLY BELIEVED TO
 HAVE BEEN USED OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE  COMMISSION  OF  A  CRIME,  OR  IS
 ACQUIRED  BY  THE  AGENCY AS AN ABANDONED OR DISCARDED FIREARM, RIFLE OR
 SHOTGUN, THE AGENCY SHALL, ARRANGE FOR  EVERY  SUCH  FIREARM,  RIFLE  OR
 SHOTGUN  THAT  IS  DETERMINED  TO  BE  SUITABLE  FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATED
 BALLISTICS IDENTIFICATION NETWORK DATA ENTRY AND EXAMINATION TO BE TEST-
 FIRED AS SOON AS MAY BE PRACTICABLE AND THE RESULTS OF  THE  TEST-FIRING
 BE  SUBMITTED  TO  THE  NATIONAL  INTEGRATED  BALLISTICS  IDENTIFICATION
 NETWORK TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN IS ASSOCIATED
 OR RELATED TO A CRIME, CRIMINAL EVENT,  OR ANY INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED  OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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