1933 N.Y. Laws 1638-39
| dc.coverage.spatial | New York | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T13:33:35Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:22:35Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:32:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1933 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ch. 805, §§ 1, 3: Prohibited selling, giving, disposing of, transporting, or possessing a machine gun or submachine gun to a person guilty of a felony. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Section 1. Section eighteen hundred and ninety-six of the penal law, is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1896. Making and disposing of dangerous weapons. A person who manufactures, or causes to be manufactured, or sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, or metal knuckles, to any person; or a person who offers, sells, loans, leases, or gives any gun, revolver, pistol or other firearm or any airgun, springgun or other instrument or weapon in which the propelling force is a spring or air or any instrument or weapon commonly known as a toy pistol or in or upon which any loaded or blank cartridges are used, or may be used, or any loaded or blank cartridges or ammunition therefor, to any person under the age of sixteen years, is guilty of a misdemeanor. A person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, disposes of or transports any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a machine-gun or a sub-machine gun to any person is guilty of a felony, except that the manufacture of machine-guns and sub-machine guns as merchandise and the sale and shipment thereof direct to regularly constituted or appointed state or municipal police departments, sheriffs, policemen, and other peace officers, and to state prisons, penitentiaries and county jails, and to military and naval organizations shall be lawful. § 2. Subdivision one of section eighteen hundred ninety-seven of the penal law is hereby amended to read as follows: A person who attempts to use against another an imitation pistol, or who carries, or possesses, any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sandbag, metal knuckles, bludgeon, or who, with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, carries or possesses a dagger, dirk, dangerous knife, razor, stiletto, imitation pistol, machine-gun, sawed off shot-gun, or any other dangerous or deadly instrument, or weapon, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and if he has been previously convicted of any crime he is guilty of a felony. This subdivision shall not apply to the use or possession of an instrument or weapon commonly known as a machine-gun or a sub-machine gun. § 3. Subdivision one-a of section eighteen hundred ninety-seven of the penal law is hereby amended to read as follows: 1-a. A machine-gun is a weapon of any description, irrespective of size, by whatever name known, loaded or unloaded, from which a number of shots or bullets may be rapidly or automatically discharged from a magazine with one continuous pull of the trigger and includes a sub-machine gun. A person who possesses or uses such machine-gun is guilty of a felony. The presence of such machine-gun in any room, dwelling, structure or vehicle shall be presumptive evidence of its illegal possession by all the persons occupying the place where such machine-gun is found. This subdivision shall not apply to possession of a machine-gun as authorized by the preceding section. Nor shall it apply to the possession or use of machine-guns in the discharge of their official duties by the state police, the warden, superintendent, headkeeper or deputy of any state prison, penitentiary, workhouse, county jail or other institution for the detention of persons convicted or accused of crime or held as witnesses in criminal cases, sheriffs, policemen, or other peace officers, nor to the possession or use of machine-guns by a person when on duty in the military or naval service of the United States or of this state, or in the postal service of the United States, nor to the possession by common carriers while being transported direct to any police department, military or naval organization, or person authorized by this section to possess and use the same. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited selling, giving, disposing of, transporting, or possessing a machine gun or submachine gun to a person guilty of a felony. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4793 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyHathi | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d022825520&seq=1674 | |
| dc.subject | MACHINE GUN RESTRICTION | |
| dc.title | 1933 N.Y. Laws 1638-39 |