New York City officials say more than 1,000 illegal guns have been taken off the streets so far this year, a milestone they credit to targeted gang takedowns and interstate trafficking investigations.<\/p>\n
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Attorney General Letitia James announced the numbers Thursday at the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, where many of the recovered weapons were displayed on long tables.<\/p>\n
The haul included so-called \u201cghost guns\u201d with no serial numbers, handguns, and assault\u2011style rifles that officials say were trafficked across state lines before ending up in city neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
James pointed to a recent indictment of a Florida man accused of shipping weapons into New York as an example of how the gun pipeline continues to fuel violence.<\/p>\n
Tisch said the NYPD\u2019s enforcement strategy has contributed to a 25% drop in gun violence citywide compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n
The 73rd Precinct, she added, has seen some of the steepest declines.<\/p>\n
“The 73rd Precinct has seen a 71% decrease in shootings year to date and an 85% decrease since 2020,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n
James emphasized that despite the progress, parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx continue to feel the consequences of illegal guns.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen gun violence goes unaddressed by those in power, it\u2019s communities like Brownsville, East New York and parts of the Bronx that pay the price,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the 1,000\u2011gun milestone represents only the starting point for 2026, adding that they hope the impact is felt most in neighborhoods that have historically carried the burden of gun violence.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes one day after Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state will intensify efforts to crack down on \u201cswitches,\u201d devices that can convert handguns into fully automatic weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City officials say more than 1,000 illegal guns have been taken off the streets so far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5004,27994,98,100,99,6616,26454,4542,46136,5302,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-176571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-3d-printed-guns","9":"tag-ag-letitia-james","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-brownsville","14":"tag-ghost-guns","15":"tag-guns","16":"tag-illegal-guns","17":"tag-jessica-tisch","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}