STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           930

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law and the executive law, in relation to  the
          sale  of ammunition; and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law
          relating thereto

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  270.00  of  the penal law is
     2  REPEALED.
     3    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.18  to  read
     4  as follows:
     5  § 265.18 Criminal sale of firearm ammunition.
     6    A  person  is  guilty of criminal sale of firearm ammunition when such
     7  person sells any firearm ammunition to a person not authorized  pursuant
     8  to law to possess a firearm capable of firing such ammunition.
     9    Criminal sale of firearm ammunition is a class B misdemeanor.
    10    §  3.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 845-e to
    11  read as follows:
    12    § 845-e. No-gun database. 1. The division shall establish and maintain
    13  a no-gun database which shall contain the names, dates of birth, and any
    14  other identifying information the  division  deems  appropriate  of  any
    15  persons not authorized pursuant to law to possess a firearm.
    16    2.  The  division  shall  allow  for  any  person selling a firearm or
    17  firearm ammunition within the state to check the no-gun database for the
    18  buyer of such firearm or firearm ammunition.
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    21  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
    22  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    23  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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