I've been reading over New York state laws and can't find a reference to this requirement. Can you tell me where to find it?
Yeah, that’s right...you can't find 'cause it aint there. You can't find anything on the ballistic imaging system either. That's because it's all in the NYCRR (New York Code Rules and Regulations.) The NYCRR is huge, about 70 volumes I think, and you have to buy it. It cost about 3000 bucks.
Every little part of NY government has its rules in the NYCRR. The NYS Department of Health has an unofficial version of NYCRR Title 10 and 18...rules for running the DoH...on its websites. Other divisions, like the State Police, don’t.
As I understand it, NYS record-keeping rules require firearms dealers to enter into the log book the authority under which handguns were previously possessed. Simple possession of handguns is illegal in New York State (a state handgun license is essentially an exception to that particular part of Penal 265.) Gun dealers are required to contact the police when they receive a gun that wasn’t possess under the few “authorities” that NYS recognizes, two being a NYS handgun license, and an FFL. If a gun dealer can’t prove that a handgun in his possession was legally possess by whoever he got it from, he can kiss his New York State firearms dealer license away, and might even be threatened with jail time.
Technically, a citizen from a state that registers firearms should be able to mail a firearm to NYS along with proof of registration. HERE is where the full faith and credit clause properly comes into play. NYS MUST accept the state registration information as being true and valid. However, that’s a bit too much for gun shop owners to deal with, and they usually just say that you have to have an FFL mail the gun to them.
Yeah, NYS sucks.
BTW the CoBIS system is defined in Title 9 of the NYCRR, section 493.
