Legislative updates, court decisions, and regulatory changes affecting New York firearms law.
A1191B/S1455B passed both houses but had not been confirmed delivered or signed as of July 22, 2026.
S7236/A7983 passed both houses but had not been confirmed delivered or signed as of July 22, 2026.
A01962B/S09629 passed both houses but had not been confirmed delivered or signed as of July 22, 2026.
S00362 remained a proposal after being committed to Senate Rules. It did not pass both houses in the reviewed session.
Parts of the 2026 proposal package became Chapter 55, with staged effective dates and a working group rather than an immediate general 3D-printer sales mandate.
Senate Bill S.4277, the "50 Caliber Threat Reduction Act," would prohibit the possession of .50 caliber and larger firearms in New York and establish a buyback program for current owners.
S362 would create a ten-day waiting period. It was committed to Senate Rules and did not pass both houses in the reviewed session.
Governor Hochul signed six gun safety bills in October 2024 addressing dealer warnings, pistol converters, extreme-risk orders, merchant category codes, and safe-storage information. Three chapter amendments followed in April 2025.
Senate Bill 8411, which would have required the Superintendent of State Police to provide the Attorney General with direct, real-time access to the criminal gun clearinghouse, was vetoed by Governor Hochul on October 16, 2025.
Signed into law on October 16, 2025, Senate Bill 1985 requires police officers responding to reports of family violence to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than 120 hours (five days), creating a mandatory cooling-off period.
The 2025-2026 state budget bill, signed as Chapter 55 of the Laws of 2025, includes Part MM establishing the New York State Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a permanent state agency dedicated to coordinating gun violence reduction efforts.
Signed into law on April 3, 2025, Senate Bill 745 removes ammunition dealers from provisions requiring payment card networks to use a specific merchant category code (MCC) for firearm merchants, addressing concerns that ammunition-only retailers were unintentionally captured by the tracking mandate.