Criminal facilitation; definitions and construction · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 115.20 Criminal facilitation; definitions and construction.
For purposes of this article, such conduct shall include, but not be limited to, making available, selling, exchanging, giving or disposing of a community gun, which in fact, aids a person to commit a crime. "Community gun" shall mean a firearm that is actually shared, made available, sold, exchanged, given or disposed of among or between two or more persons, at least one of whom is not authorized pursuant to law to possess such firearm. "Dispose of" shall have the same meaning as that term is defined in section 265.00 of this chapter. "Share" and "make available" shall, in the case of a firearm, be construed to include knowingly placing such firearm at a location accessible and known to one or more other persons.
Criminal facilitation includes making available, selling, exchanging, giving, or disposing of a community gun that actually helps someone commit a crime. ★ A “community gun” is a firearm shared or transferred among 2 or more people, at least 1 of whom cannot lawfully possess it; knowingly leaving it in a location accessible and known to others counts as sharing or making it available.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.