STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6716

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 13, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  unfinished  frames  and
          receivers

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 8 of  section  265.00  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  189  of  the  laws  of 2000, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    8. "Gunsmith" means any  person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation  or
     5  company  who engages in the business of repairing, altering, assembling,
     6  manufacturing,  cleaning,  polishing,  engraving  or  trueing,  or   who
     7  performs  any mechanical operation on, any firearm, large capacity ammu-
     8  nition feeding device or machine-gun  and shall also include assembling,
     9  manufacturing, fabricating, building, or fitting together the  component
    10  parts of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, regardless of whether the firearm,
    11  rifle  or  shotgun is intended for personal use, commercial sale, or any
    12  other purpose.
    13    § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision a of section 265.20  of  the
    14  penal  law, as separately amended by chapters 130 and 134 of the laws of
    15  2019, is amended to read as follows:
    16    Paragraph (h) of subdivision twenty-two of section 265.00 and sections
    17  265.01, 265.01-a, subdivision one of section 265.01-b, 265.01-c, 265.02,
    18  265.03, 265.04, 265.05, 265.07, 265.10, 265.11, 265.12, 265.13,  265.15,
    19  265.36, 265.37 and 270.05 shall not apply to:
    20    § 3. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    21  vision 31 to read as follows:
    22    31.  "Unfinished  frame  or  receiver"  means a frame or receiver of a
    23  firearm, rifle or shotgun whose fire-control cavity is completely  solid
    24  and  un-machined,  and which may readily be made into a functional frame
    25  or receiver through milling, drilling or other means  and  includes  any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  other  object,  part  or  combination of parts which is not a functional
     2  frame or receiver but is designed  or  intended  to  be  used  for  that
     3  purpose and can be readily made into a functional frame or receiver.
     4    § 4. Section 265.01 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     5  vision 9 to read as follows:
     6    (9) He or she possesses an unfinished frame or receiver.
     7    §  5.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.07 to read
     8  as follows:
     9  § 265.07 Criminal sale of an unfinished frame or receiver.
    10    A person is guilty of criminal sale of an unfinished frame or receiver
    11  when he or she sells,  exchanges,  gives,  disposes  of,  purchases,  or
    12  otherwise obtains an unfinished frame or receiver.
    13    Criminal sale of an unfinished frame or receiver is a class E felony.
    14    § 6. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it  shall have become a law; provided however that if section 3 of chap-
    16  ter 134 of the laws of 2019 is not in effect on such date  then  section
    17  two  of  this  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    18  manner as section 3 of chapter 134 of the laws of 2019 takes effect.