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Operation FALCON Nets 35,190 Fugitives in Annual Sweep

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- 121 days ago - cnn.com

More than 35,000 fugitives across the United States were arrested in June as part of an annual sweep that teams the U.S. Marshals Service with local law enforcement in a summer push to clean up the streets, U.S. Marshals said

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Locan Sleeping-Squirrel (89)

Tuesday July 14, 2009, 10:36 pm
[ Among the 35,190 fugitives apprehended during Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Operating Nationally) were 2,356 fugitive sex offenders, the service said.

"This might be considered the cream of the crop for the most violent felons that are out there. For example, we arrested 433 murder suspects," said U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark at a Chicago, Illinois, news conference.

In the course of the operation, the marshals also confiscated 582 firearms...]

OK, if the 582 firearms were all held by different criminals, that means 1.6% of "the cream of the crop for the most violent felons that are out there" had firearms.

Who do you think anti-gun legislation is targeting?

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