STATE OF NEW YORK
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2415
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to including
attachments to electronic devices within the meaning of the term
"imitation weapon"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 871 of the general business law,
2 as added by chapter 475 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. "Imitation weapon" means any device or object made of plastic,
5 wood, metal or any other material which substantially duplicates or can
6 reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle, pellet gun,
7 or "B-B" gun, including an attachment to an electronic device; unless
8 such imitation weapon (a) is colored other than black, blue, silver or
9 aluminum, (b) is marked with a non-removable orange stripe which is at
10 least one inch in width and runs the entire length of the barrel on each
11 side and the front end of the barrel, and (c) has a barrel at least one
12 inch in diameter that is closed for a distance of not less than one-half
13 inch from the front-end of its barrel with the same material of which
14 the imitation weapon is made. "Imitation weapon" does not include any
15 nonfiring replica of an antique firearm, the original of which was
16 designed, manufactured and produced prior to eighteen hundred ninety-
17 eight.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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