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As federal officials have boasted about their efforts to fight crime in D.C. following the Trump administration’s massive deployment of National Guard troops over the past several weeks, they have all pointed to the same statistic to prove their success: the number of guns recovered by law enforcement. “ I am pleased to report another 105 arrests have been made and 12 illegal guns taken off the streets of Washington, DC ,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted last week, in what has become her near-daily account of police statistics. The White House seems similarly excited to share these gun-recovery statistics. Everyone from D.C.’s mayor to officials at the

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