Criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 265.66 Criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle.
A person is guilty of criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle when, knowing or having reason to know it is a semiautomatic rifle, he or she sells, exchanges, gives or disposes of a semiautomatic rifle to another person and such other person does not possess a license to purchase or take possession of a semiautomatic rifle as provided in subdivision two of section 400.00 of this chapter.
Criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle is a class E felony.
Knowingly, or with reason to know, selling, exchanging, giving, or otherwise disposing of a semiautomatic rifle to someone who lacks the purchase-or-possession license required by § 400.00(2) is criminal sale of a semiautomatic rifle, a class E 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.