U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) held a virtual press conference to criticize the Trump administration’s dangerous rollbacks of gun safety regulations on Thursday.

“Earlier this month, devastating mass shootings turned Fourth of July celebrations in nine states into a series of tragedies. Instead of taking action to protect our families, the Trump administration is rolling back dozens of commonsense gun safety regulations that are designed to keep our streets safe,” she said. “Dismantling these protections is a direct surrender to the gun lobby at the expense of American lives. It’s absolutely unconscionable, and I am doing everything I can to fight back.”

The Trump administration announced it is scrapping dozens of gun regulations enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, including those that aim to block illegal firearm sales, provide oversight of private weapons transactions, and keep guns away from people with a history of mental illness. Gillibrand discussed the danger that these rollbacks pose to New Yorkers.

Gillibrand also shared the latest prosecution and gun seizure statistics around her interstate gun trafficking ban, which was passed into law as part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in 2022.

As of March 31, Gillibrand’s anti-gun trafficking statute has been used to charge 1,065 suspected gun traffickers nationwide, and more than 330 of those defendants have already been convicted. Additionally, over 6,000 guns have been seized by law enforcement as a result of these prosecutions, including more than 500 in New York State.

The seized weapons include:

— 574 AR-15s and AR-style weapons;

— 694 machine gun conversion devices, which can convert semi-automatic pistols and rifles into fully automatic weapons in under a minute;

— 251 ghost guns, which are completely untraceable homemade firearms.