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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S03383Relates to licensing and other provisions relating to firearms.
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Firearmspreemption sanctuaryAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Repeals the 2022 law (chapter 371) that added many post-Bruen restrictions on licensing, carry, sensitive places, and related rules, while amending the remaining licensing statute to remove 'good moral character,' social media and reference requirements, certain training mandates, narrower recert, 3
AN ACT to amend the penal law, the general business law and the executive law, in relation to licensing and other provisions relating to firearms; and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law, the executive law, the general business law, the state finance law and chapter 371 of the laws of 2022 amending the penal law and other laws relating to licensing and other provisions relating to firearms, relating thereto
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FirearmscarryAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 85%
Removes the 'proper cause' requirement for concealed-carry licenses (repealing the post-Bruen 'good cause' standard) and expands eligible license types and locations for carry, while repealing Penal Law 265.01-e (sensitive places) and 265.01-d (sensitive locations).
have and carry concealed, without regard to employment or place of possession [deleted: subject to the restrictions of state and federal law], by any person when proper cause exists for the issuance thereof
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Firearmspurchase background checksAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Repeals or removes several application, background, reference, social-media, and mental-health reporting requirements added in 2022, and narrows some ineligibility criteria, resulting in fewer barriers to obtaining a license to purchase or possess firearms.
[deleted: (i) names and contact information for the applicant's current spouse, or domestic partner, any other adults residing in the applicant's home, including any adult children of the applicant, and whether or not there are minors residing, full time or part time, in the applicant's home;] [deleted: (ii) names and contact information of no less than four character refer- ences...]
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FirearmsotherAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 75%
Repeals the extreme-risk-protection-order-related provisions and database cross-checks added in 2022, repeals the appeals-board process, and makes other changes that reduce administrative and disqualifying barriers to firearm ownership and licensing.
§ 4. Section 265.01-e of the penal law is REPEALED. § 5. Section 265.01-d of the penal law is REPEALED.
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Firearmsred flag erpoAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 70%
Repeals provisions of the 2022 law that expanded extreme risk protection orders and related license revocation and database checks, thereby reducing the mechanisms for temporarily removing firearms from at-risk individuals.
[deleted: extreme risk protection orders, orders of protection,] and all other records as are necessary to determine their continued accuracy
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Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily repeals large portions of New York's 2022 post-Bruen firearms law (chapter 371), removes 'good moral character' and many added application burdens (social media, references, training, narrower mental-health disqualifiers), eliminates the 'proper cause' standard for concealed carry, repeals the sensitive-places and sensitive-locations statutes, and scales back database cross-checks and some revocation processes. These changes expand the practical ability to obtain licenses, purchase, possess and carry firearms in more places. One narrow countervailing effect is the repeal of
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