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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly

A00818 Establishes the class A-I felony of operating as a major firearms trafficker.

Direction

Firearms otherAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 90%

Creates a new class A-I felony for unlawfully selling, exchanging, giving, disposing of, or possessing with intent to sell 20 or more firearms in a one-year period, so more restrictions on firearms trafficking.

A person is guilty of operating as a major firearms trafficker when such person: (1) unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of to another person or persons a total of twenty or more firearms in a period of not more than one year; or (2) unlawfully possesses with intent to sell twenty or more firearms.

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  1. Filed (completed)
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2026-01-07: referred to codes
Filed
2025-01-08
Committee
Codes
Sponsor
Amy Paulin D + 2 cosponsors (2 D)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill creates a new felony offense specifically targeting large-scale unlawful firearms trafficking, which directly imposes greater restrictions on firearms under the firearms topic (subtag other). No other listed topics are substantively addressed.

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2026-01-07Areferred to codes
2025-01-08Areferred to codes