Claim: "In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They  prosecuted only 44 of them."
Fact-check: Ted Cruz: Obama pursued few liars in gun background checks
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2017-11-10T00:00:00