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Suozzi: Hundreds of guns, thousands of pills handed in
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi (September 9, 2009)
A pill bottle of narcotics in one fist and a semiautomatic pistol in the other, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi Tuesday tallied up the proceeds of a government program to encourage people to rid themselves of old drugs and to sell their illegal guns:
Tens of thousands of pills came out of medicine cabinets, he said. Exactly 1,101 guns came off the streets and out of people's homes since...
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