Aggravated criminal possession of a weapon · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 265.19 Aggravated criminal possession of a weapon.
A person is guilty of aggravated criminal possession of a weapon when he or she commits the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree as defined in subdivision three of section 265.03 of this article and also commits any violent felony offense as defined in subdivision one of section 70.02 of this chapter or a drug trafficking felony as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section 10.00 of this chapter arising out of the same criminal transaction.
Aggravated criminal possession of a weapon is a class C felony.
Committing second-degree weapon possession under § 265.03(3) and, in the same criminal transaction, committing either a violent felony under § 70.02(1) or a drug-trafficking felony under § 10.00(21) is aggravated criminal possession of a weapon, 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.