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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S09338Establishes a three calendar day waiting period from contact of the New York State National Instant Background Check System (NYS NICS) before a firearm, shotgun or rifle may be delivered to a person; provides exceptions where a person possesses a license to purchase, carry or possess a pistol, revolver, or semiautomatic rifle.
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Firearmspurchase background checksAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 95%
Imposes a three-calendar-day waiting period after contacting NYS NICS before most firearm, rifle or shotgun deliveries (with exceptions for certain license holders), so more restrictions on firearm access.
three calendar days shall have elapsed since the date the seller or transferor contacted NYS NICS to initiate a national instant criminal background check and (b) NYS NICS has issued a "proceed" response to the seller or transferor
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends multiple sections of the penal law and general business law to replace the prior 30-day default with a mandatory three-calendar-day waiting period after NICS contact (unless a proceed response is received sooner), while carving out faster delivery for holders of certain pistol/revolver/semiautomatic rifle licenses. This change adds a new temporal restriction on firearm transfers for most buyers, directly affecting the purchase-background-checks subtag under firearms. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.
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