STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2328

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GOUNARDES, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          unlawful  storage  of  a firearm leading to use in the commission of a
          crime

          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 265.47 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 265.47 Unlawful storage of a firearm leading to use in the  commission
     4             of a crime.
     5    A  person is guilty of unlawful storage of a firearm leading to use in
     6  the commission of a crime when a person fails to safely store  a  rifle,
     7  shotgun  or  firearm  as  required pursuant to section 265.45 or section
     8  265.46 of this article, and such rifle, shotgun or firearm  is  used  in
     9  the  commission  of a crime by another individual which reasonably would
    10  have been prevented if such rifle, shotgun  or  firearm  was  stored  in
    11  accordance with sections 265.45 and 265.46 of this article.
    12    Unlawful  storage  of  a firearm leading to use in the commission of a
    13  crime is a class E felony.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05188-02-5