Criminal sale of a firearm to a minor · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 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.
A person not legally authorized to possess a firearm commits this offense by unlawfully selling, exchanging, giving, or disposing of a firearm to an unlicensed person who is, or reasonably appears to be, under 19. It 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.