STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6302

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  GOUNARDES,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL, RYAN -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to creating the offense of
          operating as a major firearms trafficker

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

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 265.46 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 265.46 Operating as a major firearms trafficker.
     4    A person is guilty of operating as a major  firearms  trafficker  when
     5  such person:
     6    (1)  unlawfully  sells,  exchanges,  gives  or  disposes of to another
     7  person or persons a total of twenty or more firearms in a period of  not
     8  more than one year; or
     9    (2) unlawfully possesses with intent to sell twenty or more firearms.
    10    Operating as a major firearms trafficker is a class A-I felony.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





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