STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5443

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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  a  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,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08587-01-3

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     1  "immediate family" shall mean spouses, domestic partners,  children  and
     2  step-children.
     3    §  2.  Paragraph  (h) of subdivision 22 of section 265.00 of the penal
     4  law, as amended by chapter 209 of the laws of 2022, is amended  to  read
     5  as follows:
     6    (h) Any weapon defined in paragraph (e) or (f) of this subdivision may
     7  only be sold to, exchanged with or disposed of to a purchaser authorized
     8  to  possess  such  weapons  or to an individual or entity outside of the
     9  state provided that any such transfer to an individual or entity outside
    10  of the state must be reported to the entity wherein the weapon is regis-
    11  tered within seventy-two hours of such transfer.  Such permissible sale,
    12  exchange or disposal of any weapon defined in paragraph (e)  or  (f)  of
    13  this  subdivision  that  was legally possessed by an individual prior to
    14  the enactment of chapter one of the laws of two thousand thirteen  which
    15  added  this  paragraph  shall  also include a member of the transferor's
    16  immediate family, who resides either within or outside the state of  New
    17  York,  and  shall  include  transfers made pursuant to a decedent's will
    18  and/or probate order, directing such exchange or transfer  to  a  person
    19  who  qualifies under this section, whether that person resides inside or
    20  outside the state of  New  York.  Such  permissible  sale,  exchange  or
    21  disposal  of any weapon defined in paragraph (e) or (f) of this subdivi-
    22  sion, to an immediate family member as defined in section eight  hundred
    23  ninety-eight of the general business law, and such permissible transfers
    24  made  pursuant to a decedent's will and/or probate order, directing such
    25  exchange or transfer to a person who qualifies under this section, shall
    26  not include transfers of large capacity ammunition  feeding  devices  as
    27  the expression, 'large capacity ammunition feeding device' is defined in
    28  subdivision  twenty-three  of  this section. An individual who transfers
    29  any such weapon to an  individual  inside  New  York  state  or  without
    30  complying  with  the  provisions  of this paragraph shall be guilty of a
    31  class A misdemeanor.
    32    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.