Quoted: I was talking to a local DEALER and he's trying to tell me IF I found a pre-ban reciever from out of state I CAN't import it into the state because I didn't posess it BEFORE George On- CRACKY signed the bill. Has anyone researched this?
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That is incorrect. It must have been legally possessed by "someone" in the U.S. on 09-13-1994 either as a named SAW, a complete rifle in SAW configuration or as a complete rifle kit in SAW configuration. Someone in this context means a person, dealer, manufacturer, PD etc.
NY's AWB date of enactment (11-01-2000) is not the determining factor to establish its "preban" status under NYS law and there is no requirement that the rifle was possessed on that date in NYS.
Ask the dealer to cite the section of the Penal Law that states the rifle had to have been possessed on 11-01-2000 in order to qualify as a "preban."