265.10 - Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and dangerous instruments and appliances.

§ 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.