New York S 4492: Prohibits the provision of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database

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S04492 Summary:

BILL NOS04492 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06113

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §400.00, Pen L; amd §530.14, CP L; amd §223, Exec L

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Prohibits the provision of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database; authorizes firearms licenses of persons on the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database to be suspended or revoked; requires the superintendent of state police to search the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database each year and report findings to appropriate enforcement agencies in order to suspend or revoke appropriate licenses.

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02/05/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4492

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting the provision
 of licenses for firearms to persons on the federal no-fly list or
 terrorist screening database; to amend the criminal procedure law, in
 relation to revoking or suspending firearms licenses of persons on the
 federal no-fly list or terrorist screening database; and to amend the
 executive law, in relation to requiring the superintendent of state
 police to search the federal no-fly list or terrorist screening data-
 base and report findings to appropriate enforcement agencies

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Deny
 2 Firearms to Dangerous Terrorists Act".
 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 400.00 of the penal law, as separately
 4 amended by chapters 371 and 669 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read
 5 as follows:
 6 1. Eligibility. No license shall be issued or renewed pursuant to this
 7 section except by the licensing officer, and then only after investi-
 8 gation and finding that all statements in a proper application for a
 9 license are true. No license shall be issued or renewed except for an
 10 applicant (a) twenty-one years of age or older, provided, however, that
 11 where such applicant has been honorably discharged from the United
 12 States army, navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard, or the
 13 national guard of the state of New York, no such age restriction shall
 14 apply; (b) of good moral character, which, for the purposes of this
 15 article, shall mean having the essential character, temperament and
 16 judgement necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in
 17 a manner that does not endanger oneself or others; (c) who has not been
 18 convicted anywhere of a felony or a serious offense or who is not the
 19 subject of an outstanding warrant of arrest issued upon the alleged

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08471-01-5

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 1 commission of a felony or serious offense; (d) who is not a fugitive
 2 from justice; (e) who is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any
 3 controlled substance as defined in section 21 U.S.C. 802; (f) who being
 4 a noncitizen (i) is not illegally or unlawfully in the United States or
 5 (ii) has not been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant
 6 visa subject to the exception in 18 U.S.C. 922(y)(2); (g) who has not
 7 been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (h)
 8 who, having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced [his
 9 or her] their citizenship; (i) who has stated whether [he or she has]
 10 they have ever suffered any mental illness; (j) who has not been invol-
 11 untarily committed to a facility under the jurisdiction of an office of
 12 the department of mental hygiene pursuant to article nine or fifteen of
 13 the mental hygiene law, article seven hundred thirty or section 330.20
 14 of the criminal procedure law or substan