Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 265.64 Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the first degree.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the first degree when, knowing they are unserialized frames or receivers or unfinished frames or receivers, such person unlawfully sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of a total of ten or more unserialized frames or receivers or unfinished frames or receivers in a period of not more than one year, 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 first degree if such person: (a) voluntarily surrenders such unserialized frames or receivers or unfinished frames or receivers 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 frames or receivers or unfinished frames or receivers to a gunsmith licensed pursuant to section 400.00 of this chapter.
Criminal sale of a frame or receiver in the first degree is a class D felony.
Knowingly and unlawfully selling, exchanging, giving, or disposing of 10 or more unserialized or unfinished frames or receivers within no more than 1 year is first-degree criminal sale of a frame or receiver, a class D 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.