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Assembly Bill A818

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Creates the offense of operating as a major firearms trafficker

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2025-A818 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6398
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §265.67, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10173, S7470
2017-2018: A360, S4385
2019-2020: A674, S6649
2021-2022: A659, S1922
2023-2024: A4229, S6302

2025-A818 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the class A-I felony of operating as a major firearms trafficker.

2025-A818 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    818
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  TAYLOR,  SEAWRIGHT -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating  the  offense  of
   operating as a major firearms trafficker

   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 265.67  to
 read as follows:
 § 265.67 OPERATING AS A MAJOR FIREARMS TRAFFICKER.
   A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY OF OPERATING AS A MAJOR FIREARMS TRAFFICKER WHEN
 SUCH PERSON:
   (1) UNLAWFULLY SELLS, EXCHANGES,  GIVES  OR  DISPOSES  OF  TO  ANOTHER
 PERSON  OR PERSONS A TOTAL OF TWENTY OR MORE FIREARMS IN A PERIOD OF NOT
 MORE THAN ONE YEAR; OR
   (2) UNLAWFULLY POSSESSES WITH INTENT TO SELL TWENTY OR MORE FIREARMS.
   OPERATING AS A MAJOR FIREARMS TRAFFICKER IS A CLASS A-I FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03377-01-5

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