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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly

S00227 Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

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Firearms weapon accessory restrictionsAI label

Restricts gun access model confidence 90%

Criminalizes the sale, distribution or disposition of digital instructions for 3D-printing various firearms, components and accessories to unlicensed persons in New York, so more restrictions on making and distributing such items.

Any person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of, by any means, including via the internet, digital instructions in the form of computer-aided design files, standard triangle/tessellation language files, or other code or instructions that may be used to program a three-dimensional printer to manufacture or produce any machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device, disguised gun, ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silencer, magazine, rapid-fire modification device or major component of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, to a person in New York who

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Firearms otherAI label

No change to gun access model confidence 80%

Defines "three-dimensional printer" in the penal law and adds the new 3D-printing instruction offense to the list of crimes for which eavesdropping and video surveillance warrants may be obtained.

"Three-dimensional printer" means a computer or computer-driven machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital model.

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  1. Filed (completed)
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  3. Passed one chamber
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  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2025-03-11: PRINT NUMBER 227A
Filed
2025-01-08
Committee
Codes
Sponsor
Brad Hoylman-Sigal D + 5 cosponsors (5 D)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds a new class A misdemeanor for intentionally selling or distributing digital 3D-printing instructions for specified firearms, weapons, magazines, silencers and components to unlicensed persons in NY (expanding the existing ban on manufacturing such items), which restricts access to and distribution of firearm-related designs under the firearms topic (weapon-accessory-restrictions subtag). It also adds a definition of three-dimensional printer and makes the new offense eligible for certain surveillance warrants, which is a technical/neutral change under firearms/other. No other of

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History (3 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-03-11SPRINT NUMBER 227A
2025-03-11SAMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES
2025-01-08SREFERRED TO CODES