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Senate Bill S626

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Adds ammunition to the list of prohibited items to purchase or dispose of after certain convictions

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2025-S626 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A202
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §265.17, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7299, A8575
2021-2022: S3545, A383
2023-2024: S1892, A659

2025-S626 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to adding ammunition to the list of prohibited items to purchase or dispose of after certain convictions.

2025-S626 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S626 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    626
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 adding ammunition  to  the
   list  of  prohibited  items  to  purchase  or dispose of after certain
   convictions

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 265.17 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 236
 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 § 265.17 Criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon OR AMMUNITION.
   A person is guilty of criminal purchase or disposal  of  a  weapon  OR
 AMMUNITION when:
   1.  Knowing  that  [he  or  she] SUCH PERSON is prohibited by law from
 possessing a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR  AMMUNITION  because  of  a
 prior  conviction or because of some other disability which would render
 [him or her] SUCH PERSON ineligible to lawfully possess a firearm, rifle
 [or], shotgun OR AMMUNITION in this state, or knowing that [he  or  she]
 SUCH  PERSON  is  the subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued
 upon the alleged commission of a felony or serious offense, such  person
 purchases  or otherwise acquires a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR AMMU-
 NITION from another person; or
   2. Knowing that it would be unlawful for another person to  possess  a
 firearm,  rifle  [or],  shotgun  OR  AMMUNITION, or knowing that another
 person is the subject of an outstanding warrant of  arrest  issued  upon
 the  alleged commission of a felony or serious offense, [he or she] SUCH
 PERSON purchases or otherwise acquires a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR
 AMMUNITION for, on behalf of, or for the use of such other person; or
   3. Knowing that another person is prohibited by law from possessing  a
 firearm, rifle [or], shotgun OR AMMUNITION because of a prior conviction
 or because of some other disability which would render [him or her] SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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