New York S 2158: Requires the division of criminal justice services to establish and maintain a database of information relating to the sale or use of microstamped guns in the state

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S02158 Summary:

BILL NOS02158 

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS A03021

&nbsp

SPONSORCOMRIE

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §837, Exec L

&nbsp

Requires the division of criminal justice services to establish and maintain a database of information relating to the sale or use of microstamped guns in the state and to promulgate regulations regarding the provision of information pertaining to the sale, delivery or use of such guns within the state.

Go to top S02158 Actions:

BILL NOS02158 

&nbsp

01/15/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

Go to topS02158 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS02158 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS02158 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2158

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
 of criminal justice services to establish and maintain a database of
 information relating to the sale or use of microstamped guns in the
 state and to promulgate regulations regarding the provision of infor-
 mation pertaining to the sale, delivery or use of such guns within the
 state

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

 1 Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 24 to read as follows:
 3 24. (a) The department shall establish, maintain and update on a quar-
 4 terly basis an electronic database of information relating to the manu-
 5 facture, sale, offer for sale, exchange, giving, transfer, delivery or
 6 use of microstamped guns in the state. Such database shall be imple-
 7 mented within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of a New
 8 York state or federal law, rule or regulation mandating the microstamp-
 9 ing of any type of gun.
 10 (b) As used in this subdivision, "microstamped gun" means a gun that
 11 has been manufactured, equipped with or modified to contain a component
 12 or mechanism that is intended to produce a unique alpha-numeric or
 13 geometric code on at least one location on each expended cartridge case
 14 fired from the gun that identifies the make, model, and serial number of
 15 the gun.
 16 (c) Such database shall contain, at a minimum and as applicable:
 17 (i) the make, model and serial number of the gun;
 18 (ii) the identity and address of the dealer in firearms licensed under
 19 section 400.00 of the penal law conveying the gun;
 20 (iii) the identity and address of the manufacturer delivering or caus-
 21 ing the delivery of the gun to a person or entity within the state;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04906-01-5

 S. 2158 2

 1 (iv) the name and address of the person or entity to whom the gun has
 2 been conveyed or delivered;
 3 (v) the name and address of the person in whose possession the gun was
 4 discovered by a police or peace agency; and
 5 (vi) such other identifying information as determined by the commis-
 6 sioner.
 7 (d) The division shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring:
 8 (i) each dealer in firearms licensed under section 400.00 of the penal
 9 law who sells, offers for sale, exchanges, gives, transfers or delivers
 10 a gun, knowing that such gun contains a microstamping component or mech-
 11 anism, to report such conveyance to the division for inclusion in the
 12 database;
 13 (ii) any manufacturer or wholesale dealer that delivers or causes to
 14 be delivered a gun to a person or entity within the state, knowing that
 15 such gun contains a microstamping component or mechanism, to report
 16 information regarding the gun or guns so delivered to the division for
 17 inclusion in the database;
 18 (iii) requiring each police agency or peace officer agency within the
 19 state to report information regarding the discovery of a microstamped
 20 gun during any investigation or arrest to the division for inclusion in
 21 the database; and
 22 (iv) regulating the disclosure of such information.
 23 § 2. This act shall take effe