What's happening
This bill exempts licensed private investigators, armed security guards, and armored car guards from certain weapon restrictions while on duty, provided they meet specific training and licensing requirements.
Why it matters
Expands weapon carry rights for specific professionals. The bill allows licensed private investigators, armed security guards, and armored car guards who meet training and licensing requirements to possess large-capacity magazines and certain impact weapons (like batons and billy clubs) while on duty, which previously were restricted under New York law.
Establishes mandatory firearms and defensive weapon training. To qualify for these exemptions, individuals must complete a rigorous 47-hour firearms training course and any additional weapon-specific training as set by the state police, helping to ensure responsible and lawful weapon use in these professions.
Limits exemptions to duty-related activities. The right to possess these weapons applies strictly while performing official job duties or traveling between home and the workplace, aiming to balance public safety with the needs of security-related fields.
Potentially impacts public safety protocols and private security operations. By expanding what tools security professionals can legally carry, the bill could enhance their ability to respond to threats, but also raises considerations about oversight, accountability, and training standards in the private security sector.
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Let Guards Use High-Capacity Magazines
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History
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1466
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, BARCLAY, FINCH, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. OAKS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to exemptions for possession of firearms and other dangerous weapons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by adding a new paragraph 17 to read as follows:
17. Possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as defined in subdivision twenty-three of section 265.00 of this article, by licensed private investigators registered under article seven of the general business law, armed security guards licensed pursuant to article seven-A of the general business law or armored car guards licensed pursuant to article eight-C of the general business law who possess a valid pistol license pursuant to section 400.00 of this chapter and have successfully completed the forty-seven hour firearms training course specified in section eighty-nine-n of the general business law while in the performance of their official duties.
§ 2. Section 265.20 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:
f. Section 265.01 of this article shall not apply to possession of a truncheon, baton, bludgeon, billy club, blackjack, or similar type weapon by a licensed private investigator, a licensed armed security officer or armored car guard. Such officer or guard shall be required to have appropriate training, as the superintendent of state police, by regulation, may prescribe, in the use of such weapon, including but not limited to the defensive use of such weapon and instruction in the legal use of deadly physical force pursuant to article thirty-five of this chapter. The possession of such weapon shall only be permitted under this section when such officer or guard is engaged in his or her lawful
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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duties related to employment as a licensed armed security officer or armored car guard, or in the transportation to or from such person's home to or from his or her place of employment.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the superintendent of state police may promulgate any rule or regulation related to the training requirement under subdivision f of section 265.20 of the penal law as added by section two of this act.
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