Criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 265.12 Criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree when such person:
(1) unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of to another five or more firearms; or
(2) unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of to another person or persons a total of two or more firearms in a period of not more than one year.
Criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree is a class C felony.
A person commits second-degree criminal sale of a firearm by unlawfully:
The offense is a class C felony.
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.