Bill Text: NY A10053 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10053

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires reasonable controls and procedures to be taken with respect to the sale, manufacturing, importing and marketing of pistol converters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - referred to codes [A10053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10053-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10053

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in  relation
          to pistol converters

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36.    "Pistol  converter"  means  any  device or instrument that when
     4  installed in or attached to the slide of a semi-automatic pistol  inter-
     5  feres  with  the  trigger  mechanism  and  thereby enables the pistol to
     6  discharge a number of shots or bullets rapidly or automatically with one
     7  continuous pull of the trigger.
     8    § 2. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 898-a  of  the  general  business
     9  law, as added by chapter 237 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as
    10  follows:
    11    2.  "Reasonable  controls  and  procedures"  shall  mean policies that
    12  include, but are not limited to: (a)  instituting  screening,  security,
    13  inventory  and  other  business practices to prevent thefts of qualified
    14  products as well as sales of qualified  products  to  straw  purchasers,
    15  traffickers,  persons prohibited from possessing firearms under state or
    16  federal law, or persons at risk of injuring themselves or others;  [and]
    17  (b)  preventing  deceptive  acts and practices and false advertising and
    18  otherwise  ensuring  compliance   with   all   provisions   of   article
    19  twenty-two-A of this chapter; and (c) taking reasonable steps to prevent
    20  the  installation  and  use of a pistol converter, as defined in section
    21  265.00 of the penal law, on qualified products.
    22    6. "Qualified product" shall [have the same meaning as defined  in  15
    23  U.S.C.  section  7903(4)] mean a firearm (as defined in subparagraph (A)
    24  or (B) of 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(3)),  including  any  antique  firearm  (as
    25  defined  in  18  U.S.C.  §  921(a)(16)), or ammunition (as defined in 18
    26  U.S.C. § 921(a)(17)(A)), or a component part of a firearm or ammunition.
    27    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11326-04-4