Criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable firearm, rifle or shotgun · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 265.50 Criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable
firearm, rifle or shotgun.
A person is guilty of criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable firearm, rifle or shotgun when he or she knowingly manufactures, causes to be manufactured, sells, exchanges, gives, disposes of, transports, ships, or possesses with the intent to sell:
1. any firearm, rifle or shotgun that, after the removal of grips, stocks and magazines, is not detectable by a metal detector calibrated to detect the Security Exemplar, as defined pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(p); or
2. any major component of a firearm, rifle or shotgun that, if subject to the types of detection devices commonly used at airports for security screening, does not generate an image that adequately displays the shape of the component.
Criminal manufacture, sale, or transport of an undetectable firearm, rifle or shotgun is a class D felony.
A person commits this offense by knowingly manufacturing, causing the manufacture, selling, exchanging, giving, disposing of, transporting, shipping, or possessing with intent to sell:
The offense is a class D 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.