STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4229

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, DICKENS, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
          and referred 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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