NY State Senate Bill 2015-S5818

Senate Bill S5818

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires certain warnings be provided upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading privileges

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2015-S5818 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7749
Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §11-0713, En Con L

2015-S5818 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain warnings concerning gun storage be provided upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading privileges.

2015-S5818 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S5818

TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
requiring certain warnings be provided upon the issuance of a hunting
license or muzzle-loading privileges

PURPOSE:

To provide notice to individuals issued a hunting license or
muzzle-loading privilege regarding the safe storage of firearms law in
order to prevent injury and death, particularly of children, by
unintentional access, discharge and use of weapons.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Section 11-0713 of the environmental conservation law is
amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to require the issuing officer
to issue, upon the issuance of a hunting license or muzzle-loading
privilege, a notice that firearms should be stored unloaded and locked
in a location that is both separate from their ammunition and
inaccessible to children and any other unauthorized person.

Section 2. Provides the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:

Current law requires the purchase of a safety locking device with the
purchase or transfer of a firearm and the safe storage of a firearm in
certain circumstances. This bill will require an issuing officer to
issue to individuals who are issued a hunting license or
muzzle-loading privilege when such license or privilege is issued, a
notice regarding an aspect of responsible firearm storage. The notice
is the identical notice required under current law to be posted in
retail businesses where firearms, rifles or shotguns are displayed or
transferred.

In 2011, firearms killed 997 New Yorkers. Of these, 466 deaths were
homicides (47%), 505 were suicides (51%), 12 were unintentional (1%)
and 14 were legal (1%). Safe storage is one way to help reduce the
firearm death and injury rate in New York State.

In addition, safe storage is particularly important in keeping
firearms out of the hands of children and young people. A 2005 study
of adult firearm storage practices found that almost 2 million
children under age 18 live in homes with easily accessible loaded
and/or unlocked guns. 116 Pediatrics e3701-372 (Sept. 2005).

This bill will increase awareness about our safe storage law and
thereby improve our ability to decrease the risk of death and injury,
particularly of children, resulting from firearms that were not safely
stored.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.


FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.

2015-S5818 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5818

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 4, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  requiring  certain warnings be provided upon the issuance of a hunting
  license or muzzle-loading privileges

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  11-0713 of the environmental conservation law is
amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
  7. UPON THE ISSUANCE OF A HUNTING LICENSE OR MUZZLE-LOADING PRIVILEGE,
THE ISSUING OFFICER  SHALL  ISSUE  THEREWITH  THE  FOLLOWING  NOTICE  IN
CONSPICUOUS AND LEGIBLE TYPE STATING THE FOLLOWING:
                                 WARNING
  THE  USE  OF  A  LOCKING  DEVICE  OR SAFETY LOCK IS ONLY ONE ASPECT OF
RESPONSIBLE FIREARM STORAGE. FOR INCREASED  SAFETY  FIREARMS  SHOULD  BE
STORED  UNLOADED  AND  LOCKED  IN  A LOCATION THAT IS BOTH SEPARATE FROM
THEIR AMMUNITION AND INACCESSIBLE TO CHILDREN AND ANY OTHER UNAUTHORIZED
PERSON.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10432-03-5

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