Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 265.63 Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the second degree when, knowing it is an unserialized frame or receiver or an unfinished frame or receiver, such person unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of such unserialized frame or receiver or unfinished frame or receiver, provided that for a period of six months after the effective date of this section, a person shall not be guilty of criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the second degree if such person: (a) voluntarily surrenders such unserialized frame or receiver or unfinished frame or receiver to any law enforcement official designated pursuant to subparagraph (f) of paragraph one of subdivision (a) of section 265.20 of this article; or (b) sells, exchanges, gives, or disposes of such unserialized frame or receiver or unfinished frame or receiver to a gunsmith licensed pursuant to section 400.00 of this chapter.
Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the second degree is a class E felony.
Knowingly and unlawfully selling, exchanging, giving, or disposing of an unserialized or unfinished frame or receiver is second-degree criminal sale of a frame or receiver, a class E felony. ★ During the 6 months after the section’s effective date, voluntary surrender to a designated law-enforcement official or transfer to a gunsmith licensed under § 400.00 is not this crime.
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.