STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5872

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 19, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 and the penal law, in  relation
          to  the exchange or transfer of firearms, rifles and shotguns pursuant
          to a decedent's will and/or probate order

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 898 of the general business law,
     2  as amended by chapter 129 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. In addition to any other requirements pursuant to state and federal
     5  law,  all  sales, exchanges or disposals of firearms, rifles or shotguns
     6  shall be conducted in accordance with this  section  unless  such  sale,
     7  exchange  or  disposal  is  conducted  by  a licensed importer, licensed
     8  manufacturer or licensed dealer, as those terms are defined in 18 USC  §
     9  922,  when such sale, exchange or disposal is conducted pursuant to that
    10  person's federal firearms license or such sale, exchange or disposal  is
    11  between  members  of an immediate family or such exchange or transfer is
    12  pursuant  to  decedent's  will  and/or  probate  order,  directing  such
    13  exchange or transfer to a person who qualifies under this section.  When
    14  a sale, exchange or disposal is conducted pursuant to a person's federal
    15  firearms  license,  before delivering a firearm, rifle or shotgun to any
    16  person, either (a) the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
    17  (NICS) or its successor has issued a "proceed" response to  the  federal
    18  firearms  licensee, or (b) thirty calendar days shall have elapsed since
    19  the date the federal firearms licensee  contacted  NICS  to  initiate  a
    20  national instant criminal background check and NICS has not notified the
    21  federal  firearms  licensee  that  the transfer of the firearm, rifle or
    22  shotgun to such person should be denied. For purposes of  this  section,
    23  "immediate  family"  shall mean spouses, domestic partners, children and
    24  step-children.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10432-01-1

        S. 5872                             2

     1    § 2. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 22 of section 265.00  of  the  penal
     2  law,  as  added  by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (h) Any weapon defined in paragraph (e) or (f) of this subdivision and
     5  any  large capacity ammunition feeding device that was legally possessed
     6  by an individual prior to the enactment of the chapter of  the  laws  of
     7  two  thousand  thirteen which added this paragraph, may only be sold to,
     8  exchanged with or disposed of to a purchaser authorized to possess  such
     9  weapons or to an individual or entity outside of the state provided that
    10  any  such  transfer to an individual or entity outside of the state must
    11  be reported to the entity wherein the weapon is registered within seven-
    12  ty-two hours of  such  transfer.  Such  permissible  sale,  exchange  or
    13  disposal  of any weapon defined in paragraph (e) or (f) of this subdivi-
    14  sion that was legally possessed by an individual prior to the  enactment
    15  of  chapter  one  of  the laws of two thousand thirteen which added this
    16  paragraph shall also include a  member  of  the  transferor's  immediate
    17  family,  who resides either within or outside the state of New York, and
    18  shall include transfers  made  pursuant  to  a  decedent's  will  and/or
    19  probate order, directing such exchange or transfer to a person who qual-
    20  ifies  under this section, whether that person resides inside or outside
    21  the state of New York. Such permissible sale, exchange  or  disposal  of
    22  any  weapon  defined  in paragraph (e) or (f) of this subdivision, to an
    23  immediate family member as defined in section eight hundred ninety-eight
    24  of the general business law, and such permissible transfers made  pursu-
    25  ant  to  a decedent's will and/or probate order, directing such exchange
    26  or transfer to a person who qualifies  under  this  section,  shall  not
    27  include  transfers  of  large capacity ammunition feeding devices as the
    28  expression, 'large capacity ammunition feeding  device'  is  defined  in
    29  subdivision  twenty-three  of  this section. An individual who transfers
    30  any such weapon or large capacity ammunition  device  to  an  individual
    31  inside  New  York state or without complying with the provisions of this
    32  paragraph shall be guilty of a class A  misdemeanor  unless  such  large
    33  capacity  ammunition  feeding  device,  the  possession of which is made
    34  illegal by the chapter of the laws of two thousand thirteen which  added
    35  this  paragraph, is transferred within one year of the effective date of
    36  the chapter of the laws of two thousand thirteen which added this  para-
    37  graph.
    38    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.