STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1904

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to lawful possession of weap-
          ons by persons eleven years of age

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph 7-g to read as follows:
     3    7-g.  Possession  and use, at an indoor or outdoor shooting range, the
     4  layout and operation of which conform to guidelines and operating stand-
     5  ards established by the national council of the Boy Scouts  of  America,
     6  for  the  purpose  of  loading  and  firing of a single shot .22 caliber
     7  rifle, the propelling force of which is gunpowder, by  a  person  eleven
     8  years  of  age  who  is  under  the  immediate supervision, guidance and
     9  instruction of (a) a duly commissioned  officer  of  the  United  States
    10  army,  navy,  marine corps, air force or coast guard, or of the national
    11  guard of the state of New York; or (b) a duly qualified adult citizen of
    12  the United States at least twenty-one years of  age  who  (i)  has  been
    13  granted  a certificate as a rifle instructor issued by the United States
    14  army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or by  the  adjutant
    15  general  of this state, or by the national rifle association of America,
    16  a not-for-profit corporation duly  organized  under  the  laws  of  this
    17  state, or (ii) has been certified as a shooting sports director by a Boy
    18  Scouts of America national camping school.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


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