New York’s new senator Kirsten Gillibrand has moved two rifles she kept under her bed for protection.
The rifles were removed for security reasons because their location had been reported, Gillibrand spokesman Matt Canter last night.
“Having that information in the public domain posed a security threat to the family,” Canter said.
In an interview with Newsday earlier yesterday said she and her husband, Jonathan, kept the rifles to protect their upstate New York home. The couple has two young children.
“If I want to protect my family, if I want to have a weapon in the home, that should be my right,” Gillibrand told the paper.