STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           659

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DICKENS, TAYLOR -- 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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