STATE OF NEW YORK
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6279
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 6, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- 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 prohibiting the provision
of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or
terrorist screening database; to amend the criminal procedure law, in
relation to revoking or suspending firearms licenses of persons on the
federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database; and to amend the
executive law, in relation to requiring the superintendent of state
police to search the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening data-
base and report findings to appropriate enforcement agencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Deny
2 Firearms to Dangerous Terrorists Act".
3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as amended by
4 chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
5 1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this
6 section except by the licensing officer, and then only after investi-
7 gation and finding that all statements in a proper application for a
8 license are true. No license shall be issued or renewed except for an
9 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however, that
10 where such applicant has been honorably discharged from the United
11 States army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or the
12 national guard of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall
13 apply; (b) of good moral character; (c) who has not been convicted
14 anywhere of a felony or a serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive
15 from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any
16 controlled substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being
17 an alien (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or (ii)
18 has not been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa
19 subject to the exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not been
20 discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h) who,
21 having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his or her
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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