STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8443

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 29, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the New  York
          State Attorney General Firearms Enforcement act

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "New York State Attorney General Firearms Enforcement act".
     3    §  2.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 76 to read
     4  as follows:
     5    § 76. Firearm enforcement.  1.  For  purposes  of  this  section,  the
     6  following terms shall have the following meanings:
     7    (a)  "Firearm"  has  the  same  meaning  as that term is defined in 18
     8  U.S.C.  921(a)(3), but shall not include an "antique  firearm"  as  that
     9  term is defined in 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(16).
    10    (b)  "Illegal firearm" means any firearm that is prohibited from being
    11  possessed or sold in the state of New York pursuant to state or  federal
    12  law.
    13    (c)  "Individual  seller  of  firearms"  means any person who sells or
    14  transfers a firearm to another person without being a licensed  firearms
    15  dealer.
    16    (d)  "Rapid-fire  modification  device"  means any bump stock, trigger
    17  crank, binary trigger system, burst trigger system, or any other  device
    18  that  is  designed  to  accelerate  the rate of fire of a semi-automatic
    19  firearm, rifle or shotgun.
    20    (e) "Retail firearms dealer" means any person who is licensed to  sell
    21  firearms at retail.
    22    2. The attorney general shall have the power and duty to:
    23    (a)  Investigate  and  prosecute  any individual seller of firearms or
    24  retail firearms dealer who knowingly sells an illegal firearm or  rapid-
    25  fire modification device to a resident of the state of New York or to an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  individual  who purchases a firearm or rapid-fire modification device on
     2  behalf of a New York state resident or who knowingly sells a firearm  or
     3  rapid-fire modification device to a resident of the state of New York or
     4  to  an  individual  who  purchases  a firearm or rapid-fire modification
     5  device on behalf of a New York state resident without contacting the New
     6  York state police for authorization  pursuant  to  section  two  hundred
     7  twenty-eight of this chapter and any other law, rule or regulation.
     8    (b) Seek and obtain injunctive relief to prevent any individual seller
     9  of  firearms or retail firearms dealer from knowingly selling an illegal
    10  firearm or rapid-fire modification device to a resident of the state  of
    11  New  York  or  to  an  individual  who purchases a firearm or rapid-fire
    12  modification device on behalf of a New York state resident or to prevent
    13  any individual seller of firearms or retail firearms dealer  from  know-
    14  ingly  selling a firearm or rapid-fire modification device to a resident
    15  of the state of New York or to an individual who purchases a firearm  or
    16  rapid-fire  modification  device  on behalf of a New York state resident
    17  without contacting the New York state police for authorization  pursuant
    18  to  section  two hundred twenty-eight of this chapter and any other law,
    19  rule or regulation.
    20    (c) Investigate and prosecute any individual  seller  of  firearms  or
    21  retail  firearms dealer should they knowingly sell ammunition to a resi-
    22  dent of the state of New York or to an individual who purchases  ammuni-
    23  tion  on  behalf of a New York state resident without contacting the New
    24  York state police for authorization  pursuant  to  section  two  hundred
    25  twenty-eight of this chapter and any other law, rule or regulation.
    26    (d) Seek and obtain injunctive relief to prevent any individual seller
    27  of  firearms or retail firearms dealer from knowingly selling ammunition
    28  to a resident of the state of New York or to an individual who purchases
    29  ammunition on behalf of a New York state resident without contacting the
    30  New York state police for authorization pursuant to section two  hundred
    31  twenty-eight of this chapter and any other law, rule or regulation.
    32    3. The attorney general shall have the power to enforce the provisions
    33  of  this  section  by  bringing  civil and criminal actions in the state
    34  courts of New York.
    35    § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    36  sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
    37  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
    38  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
    39  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
    40  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    41  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
    42  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
    43  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    44    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    45  it shall have become a law.