NY AWB and other laws NY Bill S08234 - History

     Evil forces gathered in the beginning of 2000. Several NY State Senators thought that they could only be re-elected if they passed more gun control laws. While a trial balloon was floated by Sen. Morahan, gun owners were told that nothing was going to come of it and not to worry. No NY State pro-gun groups were consulted when the law was written up. Even some of the sections of the law that we would have gone along with contain minor problems that make them unacceptable.
     The main sections of the law are:

• NY State's own Assault Weapons Ban
• CoBIS OR Combined Ballistic Identification System, ("Gun DNA")
• Minimum age of issuing of Handgun license set at 21. 18 to 21 year old can shoot handguns at a range under some restrictions. This section was changed in 2006 to allow 14 to 21 year olds to shoot.
• Gun Show NICS Check
• Theft of gun, required reporting.
• Criminal Purchase of a Weapon.

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NY's Assault Weapons Ban impact after the end of the Clinton Federal AWB ended.
from November 2004 newsletter

     Because the Federal Assault Weapons Ban ended on 9/13/04, NY gun owners are going to have to be careful because several of the provisions of the NY State AWB relied on the Clinton AWB ban being in place. When it was passed the NY AWB was touted to not have an impact because it mirrored the Federal AWB. In truth, the NY AWB had some changes in the wording and did not include the sunset provision that was in the Federal AWB. Now that the Clinton AWB is no more, everyone in NY is going to have to make sure that they follow the law and when they buy a new magazine or gun, you are going to have to make sure that it complies with the NY AWB and if it does not, that it is "grand fathered" by being made before the 9/13/94 date.
     If you purchase a "used pre-ban" magazine you are going to have to make sure that it is really "pre-ban" and not one made after the end of the ban. Take Glock for instance, I talked to the Production Manager for Glock who said that when the Federal AWB went into place, they had to move the markings on the Magazines that gave the caliber up on the magazine body so that the other required wording, (For Police ...,) would fit. Now that they are making +10 magazines for the rest of the country, they dropped the extra wording and only have the Caliber of the magazine but they did not move where it was so now it still high on the magazine and so identifiable as a post federal ban mag. They have made some other minor changes but they would not be something that would be easily noticeable.
     For guns you will have to check when the gun was made and what configuration it was made in if you want to comply with the NY AWB. You might buy a gun that you are being told is a "Pre-Ban" gun but when you check the serial number with the maker you will find that it is a "Post-Ban" gun or that it was made during the ban as a legal gun but someone added features that make it an illegal firearm under the NY AWB.
     For a look at the NY AWB please look at OCShooters.com's special report:

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    1    8. "Gunsmith" means any  person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation  or
    2  company  who engages in the business of repairing, altering, assembling,
    3  manufacturing,  cleaning,  polishing,  engraving  or  trueing,  or   who
    4  performs  any mechanical operation on, any firearm,  or machine-gun. 
    6    9.  "Dealer  in  firearms" means any person, firm, partnership, corpo-
    7  ration or company who engages in the business  of  purchasing,  selling,
    8  keeping  for  sale, loaning, leasing, or in any manner disposing of, any
    9  ASSAULT WEAPON, LARGE CAPACITY  AMMUNITION  FEEDING  DEVICE,  pistol  or
   10  revolver.

22. "ASSAULT WEAPON" MEANS ... (E) PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH TERM DOES NOT INCLUDE: ... (IV)  A RIFLE, SHOTGUN OR PISTOL, OR A REPLICA OR A DUPLICATE THEREOF, SPECIFIED IN APPENDIX A TO SECTION 922 OF 18 U.S.C. AS SUCH  WEAPON  WAS MANUFACTURED  ON  OCTOBER FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE. ... (V) A SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLE, A SEMIAUTOMATIC SHOTGUN OR A  SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL  OR  ANY OF THE WEAPONS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (D) OF THIS SUBDIVISION LAWFULLY POSSESSED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH, NINETEEN  HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR. 

23. "LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE" MEANS A MAGAZINE, BELT, DRUM,  FEED STRIP, OR SIMILAR DEVICE, MANUFACTURED AFTER SEPTEMBER THIR TEENTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR ..."
(Section 28, this act shall take effect on the first day of November next succeeding the date on  which  it  shall  have  become  a  law;)
(Section  26.  Nothing  in  this act shall be construed to prohibit a municipality or other unit of local government from adopting or maintaining  a stricter  standard ...by local law or ordinance.)

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    1    (VI) SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, AND M-12; 
    2    (VII) STEYR AUG; 
    3    (VIII) INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9 AND TEC-22; AND 
    4    (IX)  REVOLVING  CYLINDER SHOTGUNS, SUCH AS (OR SIMILAR TO) THE STREET
    5  SWEEPER AND STRIKER 12; 
    6    (E) PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH TERM DOES NOT INCLUDE: (I) ANY RIFLE,
    7  SHOTGUN OR PISTOL THAT (A) IS MANUALLY OPERATED BY BOLT, PUMP, LEVER  OR
    8  SLIDE ACTION; (B) HAS BEEN RENDERED PERMANENTLY INOPERABLE; OR (C) IS AN
    9  ANTIQUE FIREARM AS DEFINED IN 18 U.S.C. 921(A)(16); 
   10    (II)  A  SEMIAUTOMATIC  RIFLE THAT CANNOT ACCEPT A DETACHABLE MAGAZINE
   11  THAT HOLDS MORE THAN FIVE ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION; 
   12    (III) A SEMIAUTOMATIC SHOTGUN THAT CANNOT HOLD MORE THAN  FIVE  ROUNDS
   13  OF AMMUNITION IN A FIXED OR DETACHABLE MAGAZINE; 
   14    (IV)  A RIFLE, SHOTGUN OR PISTOL, OR A REPLICA OR A DUPLICATE THEREOF,
   15  SPECIFIED IN APPENDIX A TO SECTION 922 OF 18 U.S.C. AS SUCH  WEAPON  WAS
   16  MANUFACTURED  ON  OCTOBER FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE. THE MERE
   17  FACT THAT A WEAPON IS NOT LISTED IN APPENDIX A SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO
   18  MEAN THAT SUCH WEAPON IS AN ASSAULT WEAPON; OR 
   19    (V) A SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLE, A SEMIAUTOMATIC SHOTGUN OR A  SEMIAUTOMATIC
   20  PISTOL  OR  ANY OF THE WEAPONS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (D) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
   21  SION LAWFULLY POSSESSED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER FOURTEENTH, NINETEEN  HUNDRED
   22  NINETY-FOUR. 
   23 23. "LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE" MEANS A MAGAZINE, BELT,
   24  DRUM,  FEED STRIP, OR SIMILAR DEVICE, MANUFACTURED AFTER SEPTEMBER THIR-
   25  TEENTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR, THAT HAS A CAPACITY  OF,  OR  THAT
   26  CAN  BE READILY RESTORED OR CONVERTED TO ACCEPT, MORE THAN TEN ROUNDS OF
   27  AMMUNITION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  SUCH  TERM  DOES  NOT  INCLUDE  AN
   28  ATTACHED  TUBULAR  DEVICE  DESIGNED  TO ACCEPT, AND CAPABLE OF OPERATING
   29  ONLY WITH, .22 CALIBER RIMFIRE AMMUNITION.

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    1    1. Any person who  manufactures  or  causes  to  be  manufactured  any
    2  machine-gun, ASSAULT WEAPON, LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE or
    3  disguised gun is guilty of a class D felony. Any person who manufactures
    4  or causes to be manufactured any switchblade knife, gravity knife, pilum
    5  ballistic  knife, metal knuckle knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, metal
    6  knuckles, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag, sandclub or  slungshot  is
    7  guilty of a class A misdemeanor. 
    8    2. Any person who transports or ships any machine-gun, firearm silenc-
    9  er,  ASSAULT  WEAPON  OR  LARGE  CAPACITY  AMMUNITION  FEEDING DEVICE or
   10  disguised gun, or who transports or ships as merchandise  five  or  more
   11  firearms,  is  guilty  of a class D felony. Any person who transports or
   12  ships as merchandise any firearm, OTHER THAN AN ASSAULT WEAPON,  switch-
   13  blade  knife,  gravity  knife,  pilum ballistic knife, billy, blackjack,
   14  bludgeon, metal knuckles, Kung Fu star, chuka stick, sandbag  or  slung-
   15  shot is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. 
   16    3.  Any  person who disposes of any machine-gun, ASSAULT WEAPON, LARGE
   17  CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE or firearm silencer is  guilty  of  a
   18  class D felony. Any person who knowingly buys, receives, disposes of, or
   19  conceals  a  machine-gun,  firearm,  LARGE  CAPACITY  AMMUNITION FEEDING
   20  DEVICE, rifle or shotgun which has  been  defaced  for  the  purpose  of
   21  concealment or prevention of the detection of a crime or misrepresenting
   22  the  identity  of  such  machine-gun, firearm, LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION
   23  FEEDING DEVICE, rifle or shotgun is guilty of a class D felony. 
   24    4. Any person who disposes of  any  of  the  weapons,  instruments  or
   25  appliances  specified  in  subdivision  one  of section 265.01, except a
   26  firearm, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor, and he is guilty of a class
   27  D felony if he has previously been convicted of any crime.
   28    5. Any person who disposes of any of the weapons, instruments,  appli-
   29  ances  or  substances  specified  in  section 265.05 to any other person
   30  under the age of sixteen years is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. 
   31    6. Any person who wilfully defaces  any  machine-gun,  LARGE  CAPACITY
   32  AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE or firearm is guilty of a class D felony. 
   33    7. Any person, other than a wholesale dealer, or gunsmith or dealer in
   34  firearms   duly   licensed  pursuant  to  section  400.00,  lawfully  in
   35  possession of a firearm, who disposes of the same without first  notify-
   36  ing  in  writing the licensing officer in the city of New York and coun-
   37  ties of Nassau and Suffolk and elsewhere  in  the  state  the  executive
   38  department,  division  of  state police, Albany, is guilty of a class A
   39  misdemeanor. 

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    1  on,  instrument  or  appliance is found in an automobile which is being
    2  operated for hire by a duly licensed driver in the due, lawful and prop-
    3  er pursuit of his OR HER trade, then such presumption shall not apply to
    4  the  driver;  or  (c) if the weapon so found is a pistol or revolver and
    5  one of the occupants, not present  under  duress,  has  in  his  OR  HER
    6  possession a valid license to have and carry concealed the same.

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    1  revolver,  other  than  AN  ASSAULT  WEAPON OR a disguised gun, shall be
    2  issued to (a) have and possess in his dwelling  by  a  householder;  (b)
    3  have  and possess in his place of business by a merchant or storekeeper;
    4  (c)  have  and carry concealed while so employed by a messenger employed
    5  by a  banking  institution  or  express  company;  (d)  have  and  carry
    6  concealed by a justice of the supreme court in the first or second judi-
    7  cial  departments, or by a judge of the New York city civil court or the
    8  New York city criminal court; (e) have and  carry  concealed  while  so
    9  employed by a regular employee of an institution of the state, or of any
   10  county,  city,  town  or  village,  under  control  of a commissioner of
   11  correction of the city or any warden, superintendent or head  keeper  of
   12  any state prison, penitentiary, workhouse, county jail or other institu-
   13  tion  for the detention of persons convicted or accused of crime or held
   14  as witnesses in criminal cases, provided that application is made there-
   15  for by such commissioner, warden, superintendent  or  head  keeper;  (f)
   16  have  and  carry  concealed,  without  regard  to employment or place of
   17  possession, by any person when proper  cause  exists  for  the  issuance
   18  thereof;  and (g) have, possess, collect and carry antique pistols which
   19  are defined as follows: (i) any single shot, muzzle loading pistol  with
   20  a  matchlock,  flintlock,  percussion  cap,  or similar type of ignition
   21  system manufactured in or before l898, which is not designed  for  using
   22  rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition; and (ii) any repli-
   23  ca of any pistol described in clause (i) hereof if such replica-- 
   24    (1)  is  not  designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional
   25  centerfire fixed ammunition, or 
   26    (2) uses rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition which  is
   27  no  longer  manufactured  in  the United States and which is not readily
   28  available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade. 

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    1    1.  Sections  one through three, six through nineteen and twenty-three
    2  and twenty-four of this act shall take effect on the first day of Novem-
    3  ber next succeeding the date on  which  it  shall  have  become  a  law;
    4  provided,  further,  however, that effective immediately the division of
    5  state  police  is  authorized  and directed to promulgate such rules and
    6  regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of sections
    7  three and four of this act; provided, further, that  the  amendments  to
    8  subdivision  3  of section 265.00 of the penal law made by section eight
    9  of this act shall apply to offenses committed in  violation  of  article
   10  265  or  400 of the penal law on or after the first day of November next
   11  succeeding the date on which this act shall have become a law; and 
   12    2.  The gun trafficking interdiction program and  gun  tracer  program
   13  contained  in  section twenty-one of this act shall take effect November
   14  1, 2000, provided further, however, that the superintendent of the divi-
   15  sion of state police is authorized and directed  to  immediately  adopt,
   16  amend  and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary and
   17  desirable to effectuate the purposes of sections twenty-one and  twenty-
   18  two of this act.