New York Consolidated Laws Service Penal Law (Pts. ONE — FOUR)
Part THREE Specific Offenses (Titles G — P)
Title P Offenses Against Public Safety (Arts. 265 — 275)
Article 265 Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons (§§ 265.00 — 265.66)
§ 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.