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BILL NUMBER:S7828
Title of bill
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to limiting the sale of ammunition
Purpose
Prohibits the sale or purchase of more than 500 rounds of ammunition during any period of 30 days.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Amends the business law to prohibit a retail firearms dealer from selling or transferring more than 500 rounds of ammunition to a single individual during a thirty (30) day period. It also prohibits an individual from purchasing more than 500 rounds of ammunition during a thirty (30) day period. These provisions shall not apply to any shooting range, police office, law enforcement or corrections agency, members of the armed forces or national guard, or licensed firearms dealer. This section also creates a recording requirement whereby the dealer must record certain indentifying information about the purchaser or transferee and the ammunition purchased or transferred. It shall be a class A misdemeanor to violated any provisions of this section.
Section 2. Establishes the effective date.
Justification
There is currently no limit on the quantity of ammunition an individual may purchase under New York State law. It is understandable that a law-abiding sportsman or hobbyist might want to purchase ammunition in bulk quantity in order to save money, but permitting the sale of 500 rounds at a time should accomplish this goal. However, individuals looking to purchase ammunition in bulk, particularly those for whom 500 bullets per month would be insufficient, may be agents of a criminal enterprise or potential perpetrators of the kind of mass atrocities like those that took place at Columbine, Virginia Tech, or Aurora, Colorado. It is important to strike a balance between crime prevention and the rights of law-abiding individuals and this bill accomplishes that balance.
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Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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