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265.01-B – Criminal possession of a firearm

§ 265.01-b Criminal possession of a firearm.

A person is guilty of criminal possession of a firearm when he or she:
(1) possesses any firearm or; (2) lawfully possesses a firearm prior to
the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand thirteen
which added this section subject to the registration requirements of
subdivision sixteen-a of section 400.00 of this chapter and knowingly
fails to register such firearm pursuant to such subdivision.

Criminal possession of a firearm is a class E felony.

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