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2017 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title P - Offenses Against Public Safety
Article 265 - Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons
265.16 - Criminal Sale of a Firearm to a Minor.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 265.16 (2017)
265.16 Criminal sale of a firearm to a minor.A person is guilty of criminal sale of a firearm to a minor when he is not authorized pursuant to law to possess a firearm and he unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of a firearm to another person who is or reasonably appears to be less than nineteen years of age who is not licensed pursuant to law to possess a firearm.
Criminal sale of a firearm to a minor is a class C felony.
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