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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A01953Restricts the locations of gunsmiths and dealers in firearms in relation to child day care or educational facilities, and places of worship.
Direction
FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Adds new restrictions on where new gunsmith and firearms dealer licenses may be granted, prohibiting them within 500 feet of day cares, schools, places of worship or too close to other dealers in larger localities (with grandfathering for existing licenses).
No license shall be granted for any gunsmith or dealer in firearms to operate: (a) on the same street or avenue and within five hundred feet of a building occupied as a child day care or educational facility, or exclusively occupied as a place of worship;
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2026-01-07: referred to codes
Filed
2025-01-14
Committee
Codes
Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal D, Vivian Cook D, Alicia Hyndman D + 3 cosponsors (3 D)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends the penal law to impose new location-based restrictions on issuing licenses for gunsmiths and firearms dealers near sensitive facilities and other dealers, which directly limits where such businesses can operate and thus restricts the firearms topic axis. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.
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