STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7857
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 17, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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,  in  relation  to  firearms
          designed to look like objects
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-rr to read as follows:
     3    § 399-rr. Firearms designed to look like objects; prohibited.  (a)  No
     4  person, firm or corporation shall manufacture, import, sell, offer, give
     5  or  lend a firearm designed to look like an object other than a firearm,
     6  including but not limited to, firearms designed to look like a pen or  a
     7  cellphone.
     8    (b)  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  who  knowingly  violates any
     9  provisions of this section shall be guilty  of  a  class  A  misdemeanor
    10  punishable as provided for in the penal law.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14967-03-6