S 265.00 Definitions.
  As used in this article and in article four hundred, the following
terms shall mean and include:

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 9. "Dealer in firearms" means any person, firm, partnership,
corporation or company who engages in the business of purchasing,
selling, keeping for sale, loaning, leasing, or in any manner disposing
of, any assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device, pistol
or revolver.


§ 265.10 Manufacture,  transport,  disposition and defacement of weapons
             and dangerous instruments and appliances.
    1. Any person who  manufactures  or  causes  to  be  manufactured  any
  machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or
  disguised gun is guilty of a class D felony. Any person who manufactures
  or causes to be manufactured any switchblade knife, gravity knife, pilum
  ballistic  knife,  metal  knuckle  knife,  billy,  blackjack,  bludgeon,
  plastic knuckles, metal knuckles, Kung Fu star,  chuka  stick,  sandbag,
  sandclub or slungshot is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    2.  Any  person  who  transports  or  ships  any  machine-gun, firearm
  silencer, assault weapon or large capacity ammunition feeding device  or
  disguised  gun,  or  who transports or ships as merchandise five or more
  firearms, is guilty of a class D felony. Any person  who  transports  or
  ships  as  merchandise  any  firearm,  other  than  an  assault  weapon,
  switchblade  knife,  gravity  knife,  pilum  ballistic   knife,   billy,
  blackjack,  bludgeon,  plastic  knuckles,  metal knuckles, Kung Fu star,
  chuka stick, sandbag or slungshot is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    3. Any person who disposes of any machine-gun, assault  weapon,  large
  capacity  ammunition  feeding  device or firearm silencer is guilty of a
  class D felony. Any person who knowingly buys, receives, disposes of, or
  conceals a  machine-gun,  firearm,  large  capacity  ammunition  feeding
  device,  rifle  or  shotgun  which  has  been defaced for the purpose of
  concealment or prevention of the detection of a crime or misrepresenting
  the identity of such machine-gun,  firearm,  large  capacity  ammunition
  feeding device, rifle or shotgun is guilty of a class D felony.
    4.  Any  person  who  disposes  of  any of the weapons, instruments or
  appliances specified in subdivision one  of  section  265.01,  except  a
  firearm, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor, and he is guilty of a class
  D felony if he has previously been convicted of any crime.
    5.  Any  person  who  disposes  of  any  of  the weapons, instruments,
  appliances or substances specified in section 265.05 to any other person
  under the age of sixteen years is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    6. Any person who wilfully defaces  any  machine-gun,  large  capacity
  ammunition feeding device or firearm is guilty of a class D felony.
    7. Any person, other than a wholesale dealer, or gunsmith or dealer in
  firearms   duly   licensed  pursuant  to  section  400.00,  lawfully  in
  possession of  a  firearm,  who  disposes  of  the  same  without  first
  notifying  in  writing the licensing officer in the city of New York and
  counties of Nassau and Suffolk and elsewhere in the state the  executive
  department,  division  of  state  police, Albany, is guilty of a class A
  misdemeanor.

 § 265.20 Exemptions.
    a.  Sections  265.01,  265.02, 265.03, 265.04, 265.05, 265.10, 265.11,
  265.12, 265.13, 265.15 and 270.05 shall not apply to:

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8.  The  manufacturer  of  machine-guns,  firearm  silencers,  assault
  weapons, large capacity  ammunition  feeding  devices,  disguised  guns,
  pilum  ballistic  knives,  switchblade  or  gravity  knives,  billies or
  blackjacks as merchandise, or as a transferee recipient of the same  for
  repair,  lawful  distribution  or  research  and  development,  and  the
  disposal and shipment thereof  direct  to  a  regularly  constituted  or
  appointed  state  or  municipal police department, sheriff, policeman or
  other peace officer, or to  a  state  prison,  penitentiary,  workhouse,
  county  jail or other institution for the detention of persons convicted
  or accused of crime or held as witnesses in criminal cases,  or  to  the
  military  service  of  this  state  or  of the United States; or for the
  repair and return of the same to the lawful possessor  or  for  research
  and development.