S 9827: Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
The proposed law aims to regulate the manufacture and sale of three-dimensional printed firearms in New York. It makes it a class D felony to manufacture or cause to be manufactured any machine-gun, assault weapon, or large capacity ammunition feeding device. Manufacturing or causing to be manufactured any rapid-fire modification device is considered a class E felony. Selling, distributing, or disposing of digital instructions for three-dimensional printing firearms to unauthorized individuals is considered a class A misdemeanor. The law also defines three-dimensional printing as a computer or machine capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a digital model. Manufacturing, transporting, and disposing of certain weapons and dangerous instruments is also addressed. The law takes effect 60 days after it becomes a law, and any provisions found to be invalid do not affect the val…
- What is the current status of S 9827?
- As of April 12, 2026, S 9827 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on April 7, 2026, was "REFERRED TO CODES".
- Did S 9827 pass?
- Not yet. S 9827 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote S 9827, and where is it now?
- S 9827 was authored by Sen. Zellnor Myrie. Its committee of record is Senate Codes. It is filed under Penal, alongside 132 other New York Penal bills this session.
| Apr. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO CODES |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9827 IN SENATE April 7, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in relation to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 265.10 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 481 of the laws of 2024, is amended and a new subdi- 3 vision 10 is added to read as follows: 4 1. Any person who manufactures or causes to be manufactured any 5 machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device, 6 ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silencer, magazine, or 7 major component of a firearm, rifle or shotgun or disguised gun is guil- 8 ty of a class D felony. Any person who manufactures or causes to be 9 manufactured any rapid-fire modification device is guilty of a class E 10 felony. Any person who manufactures or causes to be manufactured any 11 switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal knuckle knife, undetect- 12 able knife, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, plastic knuckles, metal knuck- 13 les, throwing star, chuka stick, sandbag, sandclub or slungshot is guil- 14 ty of a class A misdemeanor. 15 10. Any person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of, 16 by any means, including via the internet, digital instructions in the 17 form of computer-aided design files, standard triangle/tessellation 18 language files, or other code or instructions that may be used to 19 program a three-dimensional printer to manufacture or produce any 20 machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device, 21 disguised gun, ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, firearm silenc- 22 er, magazine, rapid-fire modification device or major component of a 23 firearm, rifle or shotgun, to a person in New York who is not registered 24 or licensed as a gunsmith as provided for in section 400.00 of this 25 chapter with a Type 7 Federal Firearms License, is guilty of a class A 26 misdemeanor. 27 § 2. Section 265.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi- 28 vision 37 to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00770-04-6S. 9827 2 1 37. "Three-dimensional printer" means a computer or computer-driven 2 machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional object from a 3 digital model. 4 § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 700.05 of the criminal procedure law is 5 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows: 6 (w) Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and 7 dangerous instruments and appliances as provided in subdivision ten of 8 section 265.10 of the penal law. 9 § 4. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of 10 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect 11 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or of 12 any other application of any provision of this act, which can be given 13 effect without that provision or application; and to that end, the 14 provisions and applications of this act are severable. 15 § 5. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law.