Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.
Not law yet. Pending legislation.
Bill summary
Official digest is not on this card.
Now vs if chaptered
Now: no statewide 3-D-printer buyer NICS analogue. If chaptered: printer retailers must clear DCJS before sale; a denied buyer is a seller problem, not automatically a possessory crime. Confirm chaptering before advising.
Defender utility
New York defenders: this is a seller/printer-sale duty, not a new possessory count. Do not treat owning a 3-D printer as a crime under this bill. If it chapters, PMF/ghost-gun calendars still live under existing Penal Law manufacture/possess theories; this card is the analogue to CA AB 2047 printer-sale mandates. Not a current charge.
Who this is for. NY makers/printer retailers and PDs distinguishing a still-pending printer-sale mandate from already-illegal unlicensed manufacture — not present law; not a California charge.