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- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Requires certain warnings be provided upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading privileges
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Amy Paulin
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BILL NUMBER:S5818
Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to requiring certain warnings be provided upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading privileges
Purpose
To provide notice to individuals issued a hunting license or muzzle-loading privilege regarding the safe storage of firearms law in order to prevent injury and death, particularly of children, by unintentional access, discharge and use of weapons.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Section 11-0713 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to require the issuing officer to issue, upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading privilege, a notice that firearms should be stored unloaded and locked in a location that is both separate from their ammunition and inaccessible to children and any other unauthorized person.
Section 2. Provides the effective date.
Justification
Current law requires the purchase of a safety locking device with the purchase or transfer of a firearm and the safe storage of a firearm in certain circumstances. This bill will require an issuing officer to issue to individuals who are issued a hunting license or muzzle-loading privilege when such license or privilege is issued, a notice regarding an aspect of responsible firearm storage. The notice is the identical notice required under current law to be posted in retail businesses where firearms, rifles or shotguns are displayed or transferred.
In 2011, firearms killed 997 New Yorkers. Of these, 466 deaths were homicides (47%), 505 were suicides (51%), 12 were unintentional (1%) and 14 were legal (1%). Safe storage is one way to help reduce the firearm death and injury rate in New York State.
In addition, safe storage is particularly important in keeping firearms out of the hands of children and young people. A 2005 study of adult firearm storage practices found that almost 2 million children under age 18 live in homes with easily accessible loaded and/or unlocked guns. 116 Pediatrics e3701-372 (Sept. 2005).
This bill will increase awareness about our safe storage law and thereby improve our ability to decrease the risk of death and injury, particularly of children, resulting from firearms that were not safely stored.
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Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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