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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S04790Requires a purchaser of any firearm, rifle or shotgun to submit to a mental health evaluation and provide the seller with such purchaser's approval to purchase such firearm.
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Firearmspurchase background checksAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Requires a mental health evaluation and approval before any purchase of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, so more restrictions on who can buy firearms.
Before any sale, exchange, or disposal pursuant to this article, a purchaser of any firearm, rifle or shotgun shall submit to a mental health evaluation and provide the seller with proof of such purchaser's approval to purchase such firearm, rifle or shotgun pursuant to subdivision (n) of section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law.
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FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Creates a new penal offense for purchasing or disposing of a firearm without the required mental health evaluation approval, so more restrictions on firearms transfers.
4. Knowing that a mental health evaluation is required pursuant to subdivision (n) of section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law, such person either purchases or disposes of a firearm, rifle or shotgun without such mental health evaluation approval for purchase.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds a mandatory mental health evaluation and approval process as a prerequisite to purchasing any firearm, rifle or shotgun (with associated regulations, forms, and judicial review of denials), and makes it a crime to buy or sell without it. These provisions add new restrictions on firearm purchases and transfers. Deletions of certain exceptions from background-check rules are technical adjustments but do not change the net restrictive direction of the new mental-health requirement.
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