STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8717
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     October 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY, HEASTIE, LENTOL -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in  relation
          to the possession, manufacture or sale of a trigger crank, a bump-fire
          device or other firing accelerators
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 265.01 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    (9)  A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal possession of a weapon in the
     4  fourth  degree  when,  with  knowledge  of  the  character  thereof,  he
     5  possesses  a trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any part, combination
     6  of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory which is  designed
     7  or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle in
     8  such a way so as to approximate the operation of a machine-gun.
     9    §  2.  Subdivisions  1  and  2  of section 265.10 of the penal law, as
    10  amended by chapter 257 of the laws of  2008,  are  amended  to  read  as
    11  follows:
    12    1.  Any  person  who  manufactures  or  causes  to be manufactured any
    13  machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or
    14  disguised gun is guilty of a class D felony. Any person who manufactures
    15  or causes to be manufactured a trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any
    16  part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or  accessory
    17  which is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-
    18  automatic  rifle  in  such a way so as to approximate the operation of a
    19  machine-gun is guilty of a class E felony. Any person  who  manufactures
    20  or causes to be manufactured any switchblade knife, gravity knife, pilum
    21  ballistic  knife, metal knuckle knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plas-
    22  tic knuckles, metal knuckles, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag,  sand-
    23  club or slungshot is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    2. Any person who transports or ships any machine-gun, firearm silenc-
     2  er,  assault  weapon  or  large  capacity  ammunition  feeding device or
     3  disguised gun, or who transports or ships as merchandise  five  or  more
     4  firearms,  is  guilty  of a class D felony. Any person who transports or
     5  ships  a  trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of
     6  parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory which is designed  or
     7  functions  to  accelerate  the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle in
     8  such a way so as to approximate the operation of a machine-gun is guilty
     9  of a class E felony. Any person who transports or ships  as  merchandise
    10  any  firearm,  other  than an assault weapon, switchblade knife, gravity
    11  knife, pilum ballistic knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuck-
    12  les, metal knuckles, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag or slungshot  is
    13  guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    14    §  3.  Subdivision  3  of  section  897 of the general business law is
    15  renumbered subdivision 4 and a new subdivision 3 is  added  to  read  as
    16  follows:
    17    3.  No  trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of
    18  parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory which is designed  or
    19  functions  to  accelerate  the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle in
    20  such a way so as to approximate the operation of a machine-gun shall  be
    21  sold  in  this  state  to  any  person, firm, association or corporation
    22  except that nothing in this section shall be  construed  to  forbid  the
    23  sale of such goods to the state or any political subdivision thereof for
    24  a law enforcement agency.
    25    §  4.  Subdivision  6  of  section  898 of the general business law is
    26  renumbered subdivision 7 and a new subdivision 6 is  added  to  read  as
    27  follows:
    28    6.  No  trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of
    29  parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory which is designed  or
    30  functions  to  accelerate  the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle in
    31  such a way so as to approximate the operation of a machine-gun shall  be
    32  sold  in  this  state  to  any  person, firm, association or corporation
    33  except that nothing in this section shall be  construed  to  forbid  the
    34  sale of such goods to the state or any political subdivision thereof for
    35  a law enforcement agency.
    36    §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    37  section one of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  twentieth
    38  day after it shall have become a law.