STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8775

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the disposal
          of firearms acquired pursuant to a gun buyback program

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 233 of the executive law, as added
     2  by  chapter 139 of the laws of 2019, is amended and two new subdivisions
     3  6 and 7 are added to read as follows:
     4    5. For purposes of this section:
     5    (a) "agency" means the police force or department of any county, city,
     6  town, or village or a county sheriff; and
     7    (b)  "guns, rifles, and firearms" shall include but not be limited  to
     8  the barrel, trigger, grip, slide, stock, springs as well as parts of the
     9  gun, rifle, and firearm within the frame.
    10    6.  All  agencies  participating  in  a gun buyback program authorized
    11  under this section shall dispose of  all  purchased  guns,  rifles,  and
    12  firearms in the following manner:
    13    (a)  Such  guns,  rifles,  and  firearms  shall  be  disassembled  and
    14  destroyed.
    15    (b) A video shall  be  made  and  stored  of  such  disassembling  and
    16  destruction of the guns, rifles, and firearms.
    17    (c) A log shall be created of all guns, rifles, and firearms processed
    18  by  serial  and case number. Such serial and case number shall be easily
    19  visible on the video of such disassembling and destruction of such guns,
    20  rifles, and firearms.
    21    (d) Such log and video shall be filed with the agency conducting  such
    22  buyback program and with the department of criminal justice services.
    23    7.  (a) No person shall sell or transfer, or modify for sale or trans-
    24  fer, any firearm, rifle, or shotgun acquired as part of  a  gun  buyback
    25  program authorized under this section.
    26    (b)  Any  person who violates the provisions of this subdivision shall
    27  be guilty of a class E felony.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13816-02-3