Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal urged their colleagues on Sunday to back legislation that would close loopholes that allow domestic-violence abusers to get guns.

The New York and Connecticut Democrats also called for the Senate to give a hearing to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, with justices soon to hear crucial gun-control cases.

“Under current law, even domestic abusers who have been tried and convicted of their violent crimes are allowed to buy guns,” Gillibrand told reporters in Manhattan on Sunday.

Blumenthal cited the case of Lori Jackson, 32, who was shot and killed in Connecticut two years ago by her husband after she had gotten a temporary restraining order.

Federal laws bar domestic abusers with permanent restraining orders from owning guns, but don’t apply to those with only temporary orders against them.