Overview
- Police and borough prosecutors announced on Friday, June 5 that the NYPD recovered more than 2,000 firearms in the first five months of 2026.
- Officials said the haul included over 100 ghost guns, which lack serial numbers and cannot be traced to their original owners.
- City leaders credited a coordinated strategy of stings, buyback programs and recoveries at shooting scenes for the seizures and linked them to lower shooting and murder counts this year.
- Authorities provided a borough breakdown showing concentration of recoveries with nearly 600 in Brooklyn, about 500 each in Manhattan and the Bronx, roughly 400 in Queens, and more than 100 in Staten Island.
- Prosecutors warned the gains are fragile and urged continued interagency enforcement, prosecutorial follow-through, and youth-focused prevention to guard against historic summer crime spikes.