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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A03829Relates to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer as well as judges or justices of a court of record having an office in the county of St. Lawrence.
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FirearmsotherAI label
=No change to gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Replaces gendered pronoun 'his' with gender-neutral 'their' in the definition of licensing officer, with no substantive change to licensing rules.
having [deleted: his] their office in the county of issuance.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands the list of firearms licensing officers in St. Lawrence County to include the sheriff in addition to judges, which expands the ability to obtain licenses by increasing available issuers. The pronoun update is purely technical and neutral.
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