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History
- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to codes
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BILL NUMBER:S117
Title of bill
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring a national instant criminal background check to be conducted on each person purchasing ammunition
Purpose
Requires a national instant criminal background check to be conducted on each individual who purchases ammunition.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Amends the business law to require that prior to the retail sale or transfer of firearm ammunition, the dealer must conduct a national instant criminal background check pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922 and deny sale if the purchaser or transferee fails said background check. It also creates a recording requirement, whereby the retail dealer must record certain indentifying information about the purchaser and ammunition, furnish the record to the Department of Criminal Justice Services, and retain said record for not less than seven (7) years. The legislation also makes the violation of these provisions a class A misdemeanor.
Section 2. Establishes the effective date.
Justification
While New York State law currently requires that a background check be conducted when an individual seeks to purchase a firearm, there is no such requirement for the purchase of ammunition. This inexcusable gap in the law permits convicted felons and the dangerously mentally ill to easily buy deadly ammunition without any checks or oversight. A dangerous individual who has purchased a gun on the black market or through a straw purchaser can simply go to his nearest sporting goods store and acquire the means to kill. This common sense bill closes the current gap, and will help keep bullets out of the hands of those who are not permitted to possess firearms in the first place.
Legislative history
2011-12: S.7829
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
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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