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- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 55–3
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.265
- Print number 1407b
- Amend and recommit to codes
- Referred to codes
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
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- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–3
- Amended on third reading 1407a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.265
- Referred to codes
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Creates the offense of criminal use of a firearm in connection with a crime; repealer
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Brian Kavanagh
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S1407B
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, the vehicle and traffic law and the general business law, in relation to criminal use of a firearm in the first degree and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law relating thereto
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to provide stiffer sentences to criminals who use firearms to commit felonies.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends the definition of criminal use of a firearm in the first degree to include displaying a firearm in the commission of any felony as opposed to just class B violent felonies.
Section two repeals criminal use of a firearm in the second degree (a class C felony), this effectively upgrades all instances of criminal use of a firearm to class B violent felonies.
Section three is technical and updates the cross references in law.
Justification
The use of firearms to commit violent crimes and terrorize the general populace is barbaric and unacceptable in any advanced civilization. However, citizens of the united States of America have a constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms for their own purposes including hunting, recreation, collecting, self defense, to protect their families, to protect their homes or any other lawful purpose that the individual citizen may desire. These rights have been recently upheld in the Supreme Court cases of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago.
Nonetheless, for a free society to flourish there has to be a respected rule of law. Hence, it is essential that people who use force to terrorize and prey upon others be punished to the fullest extent of the law, and that the laws be strong enough to make use a firearm in the commission of a crime unthinkable.
Legislative history
S.2110 of 2010 - Referred to Codes
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
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