Terms Used In N.Y. Penal Law 265.02

• Assault weapon: means
  
  (a) a semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least one of the following characteristics:
  
  (i) a folding or telescoping stock;
  
  (ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
  
  (iii) a thumbhole stock;
  
  (iv) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand;
  
  (v) a bayonet mount;
  
  (vi) a flash suppressor, muzzle break, muzzle compensator, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor, muzzle break, or muzzle compensator;
  
  (vii) a grenade launcher; or
  
  (b) a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least one of the following characteristics:
  
  (i) a folding or telescoping stock;
  
  (ii) a thumbhole stock;
  
  (iii) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand;
  
  (iv) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of seven rounds;
  
  (v) an ability to accept a detachable magazine; or
  
  (c) a semiautomatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least one of the following characteristics:
  
  (i) a folding or telescoping stock;
  
  (ii) a thumbhole stock;
  
  (iii) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand;
  
  (iv) capacity to accept an ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip;
  
  (v) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or silencer;
  
  (vi) a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned;
  
  (vii) a manufactured weight of fifty ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; or
  
  (viii) a semiautomatic version of an automatic rifle, shotgun or firearm;
  
  (d) a revolving cylinder shotgun;
  
  (e) a semiautomatic rifle, a semiautomatic shotgun or a semiautomatic pistol or weapon defined in subparagraph (v) of paragraph (e) of subdivision twenty-two of section 265. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Disguised gun: means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive and is designed and intended to appear to be either; (a) something other than a gun; or (b) a toy gun that shall include, but not be limited to, any firearm, rifle, shotgun or machine-gun displaying a color finish other than the original manufacture color, a decorative pattern or plastic like surface; provided, however, that any rifle or shotgun displaying a camouflage color finish or pattern that is intended for hunting, as defined by Article 11 of the environmental conservation law, shall not be considered a "disguised gun" for purposes of this section. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Firearm: means (a) any pistol or revolver; or (b) a shotgun having one or more barrels less than eighteen inches in length; or (c) a rifle having one or more barrels less than sixteen inches in length; or (d) any weapon made from a shotgun or rifle whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise if such weapon as altered, modified, or otherwise has an overall length of less than twenty-six inches; or (e) an assault weapon; or (f) any other weapon that is not otherwise defined in this section containing any component that provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate any fire control component that is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by action of explosive. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Firearm silencer: means any instrument, attachment, weapon or appliance for causing the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol or other firearms to be silent, or intended to lessen or muffle the noise of the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol or other firearms. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Large capacity ammunition feeding device: means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device, that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition; provided, however, that such term does not include an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, . See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Machine-gun: means a weapon of any description, irrespective of size, by whatever name known, loaded or unloaded, from which a number of shots or bullets may be rapidly or automatically discharged from a magazine with one continuous pull of the trigger and includes a sub-machine gun. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Rifle: means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger using either: (a) fixed metallic cartridge; or (b) each projectile and explosive charge are loaded individually for each shot discharged. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00
• Shotgun: means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive to fire through a smooth or rifled bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger using either: (a) a fixed shotgun shell; or (b) a projectile or number of ball shot and explosive charge are loaded individually for each shot discharged. See N.Y. Penal Law 265.00