Kirsten Gillibrand’s been having to make some life changes since taking over Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.

In addition to shifting her stance on immigration, Gillibrand has been slowly backing away from her once-integral gun policy. To that end, Gillibrand met with gun control advocates and, in perhaps the most personal move, removed two guns from beneath her bed.

Gillibrand revealed last week she slept with two allegedly unloaded rifles under her bed for protection, an admission that had gun control activists in a rage. Now Newsday reports that the mother of two moved the firearms. A spokesman, however, downplayed the importance of public scrutiny: "Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved for security reasons," said Gillibrand’s spokesman Matt Canter.

Of course Gillibrand’s potential 2010 election opponents took the chance to take a dig at her for it.

"With Kirsten Gillibrand keeping two rifles under the bed and Chuck Schumer being so anti-gun, Schumer and Gillibrand have to be the Senate’s oddest couple," joked Rep. Peter King, R-NY, to Newsday.

Meanwhile, a new Quinnipiac poll shows that voters aren’t happy with the way Gov. David Paterson went about picking Gillibrand. And it’s showing in her public polling numbers: Rep. Carolyn McCarthy beat Gillibrand in a Democratic primary 34 to 24 percent, with 39 percent undecided, and in a general election matchup with King, Gillibrand is up 42 to 26 percent, with 28 percent undecided.

"Sen. Gillibrand needs to keep up her get-acquainted campaign. She trails Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, and ‘don’t know,’ among Democrats and leads Rep. Peter King in a November campaign," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "But as of today, voters don’t know much about any of them."