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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A09386Permits the possession and use of devices that silence, suppress, or muffle the sound or natural report of a firearm when the firearm is discharged, provided the host firearm to which the device is attached is allowed and is a rifle that is manually operated by a bolt.
Direction
Firearmsweapon accessory restrictionsAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Removes silencers from the list of prohibited devices for hunting/possession in the field and from the definition of assault weapons, and adds an exception allowing lawful possession and use of firearm silencers on bolt-action rifles, so greater ability to own and use firearm suppressors.
An individual in lawful possession of a device that will silence, suppress, or muffle the sound or natural report of a firearm when the firearm is discharged may use such device, provided the host firearm to which the device is attached is allowed and is a rifle that is manually operated by a bolt;
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FirearmsotherAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Repeals the explicit ban on silencers in the environmental conservation law and removes references to flash suppressors, threaded barrels, and silencers from the assault-weapon features list in the penal law, increasing the ability to own and use such firearm accessories.
[deleted: the apparatus known as a silencer;]
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Filed (completed)
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Passed one chamber
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Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2026-01-07: referred to environmental conservation
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill removes the prohibition on silencers/suppressors from hunting and penal statutes, carves out an explicit allowance for their use on bolt-action rifles, and deletes references to them and related features (flash suppressors, threaded barrels) from assault-weapon definitions, all of which expand the ability to possess and use these firearm accessories under the firearms topic.
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