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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A07810Establishes a private cause of action for certain violations regarding machine-guns, assault weapons, disguised guns, ghost guns, and unfinished frames or receivers.
Direction
Firearmsweapon accessory restrictionsAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Prohibits manufacture, distribution, transport, import, sale, or lending of machine-guns, assault weapons, disguised guns, ghost guns, and unfinished frames or receivers (with limited exceptions), so fewer such items can be obtained or possessed in the state.
no person within the state shall manufacture or cause to be manufactured, distribute, transport, or import into the state, or cause to be distributed, transported, or imported into the state, keep for sale, offer or expose for sale, or give or lend, any machine-gun, assault weapon, disguised gun or ghost gun
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Firearmsindustry liabilityAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 85%
Creates a private civil cause of action (with statutory damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees) against any person who knowingly violates or aids/abetts violations of the prohibitions on machine-guns, assault weapons, ghost guns, etc., and limits certain defenses, so increases civil risk to
Any person, other than an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity in the state, shall have a private cause of action against any person who does any of the following: (a) Knowingly violates section eight hundred ninety-eight-k of this article. (b) Knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets a violation of section eight hundred ninety-eight-k of this article
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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 economic development
Filed
2025-04-11
Committee
Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds Article 39-DDDDD to the General Business Law, which prohibits various commercial and transfer activities involving specified restricted firearms and parts (machine-guns, assault weapons, disguised guns, ghost guns, unfinished frames/receivers) and creates an exclusive private right of action to enforce those prohibitions with substantial civil penalties. This directly restricts access to and manufacture/sale of those items under the firearms topic (weapon-accessory-restrictions and industry-liability subtags). The amendment in Section 2 changes fixed statutory damages to court-ds
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