Senate Bill S5961

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the exchange or transfer of firearms, rifles and shotguns pursuant to a decedent's will and/or probate order

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection 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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2019-S5961 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §898, Gen Bus L; amd §265.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S5872
2023-2024: S5443

2019-S5961 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the exchange or transfer of firearms, rifles and shotguns pursuant to a decedent's will and/or probate order; prohibits transfers of large capacity ammunition feeding devices.

2019-S5961 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5961 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5961
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law and the penal law, in  relation
   to  the exchange or transfer of firearms, rifles and shotguns pursuant
   to a decedent's will and/or probate order

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 898 of the general business law,
 as added by chapter 1 of the  laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  In addition to any other requirements pursuant to state and feder-
 al  law,  all sales, exchanges or disposals of firearms, rifles or shot-
 guns shall be conducted in accordance  with  this  section  unless  such
 sale, exchange or disposal is conducted by a licensed importer, licensed
 manufacturer  or licensed dealer, as those terms are defined in 18 USC §
 922, when such sale, exchange or disposal is conducted pursuant to  that
 person's  federal firearms license or such sale, exchange or disposal is
 between members of an immediate family OR SUCH EXCHANGE OR  TRANSFER  IS
 PURSUANT  TO  DECEDENT'S  WILL  AND/OR  PROBATE  ORDER,  DIRECTING  SUCH
 EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER TO A PERSON WHO QUALIFIES UNDER THIS  SECTION.  For
 purposes  of this section, "immediate family" shall mean spouses, domes-
 tic partners, children and step-children.
   § 2. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 22 of section 265.00  of  the  penal
 law,  as  added  by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (h) Any weapon defined in paragraph (e) or (f) of this subdivision and
 any large capacity ammunition feeding device that was legally  possessed
 by  an  individual  prior to the enactment of the chapter of the laws of
 two thousand thirteen which added this paragraph, may only be  sold  to,
 exchanged  with or disposed of to a purchaser authorized to possess such
 weapons or to an individual or entity outside of the state provided that

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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