Bullet Fingerprinting
Legislation is being pushed to Governor Schwarzenegger that will require gun manufacturers to provide a system which creates a microstamp on the shell casings of the bullets fired. The microstamp will supposedly provide a link between the shells and the weapon.
I am not familiar with the arguments surrounding this, but what is stopping a criminal from collecting the spent shells? Or, what about defeating the component which creates the microstamp?
I would prefer that legislation be passed for harsher punishment for criminals, instead of the catch-and-release program where they enjoy a brief stay at the "country club".
I am not familiar with the arguments surrounding this, but what is stopping a criminal from collecting the spent shells? Or, what about defeating the component which creates the microstamp?
I would prefer that legislation be passed for harsher punishment for criminals, instead of the catch-and-release program where they enjoy a brief stay at the "country club".
posted @ 11:24 PM
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In a way, I don't see the point.. the inside of the chamber puts grooves on the bullets, right? Grooves that can be matched up, so the lab can determine what gun the bullet was fired from. (Do two of the same time of gun have the same grooves, or are they all different somehow?) And like you said, what's to stop the perp from taking off with any spent shells? I would guess most don't, though. The clock is ticking, the cops are on their way.. and who has time to stop to pick them up?
There are products on the market for catching ejected shell casings from semiauto pistols. Revolvers on the other hand, do not leave shell casings behind. Yes, grooves already id the BULLET to the gun, whereas shell casings may have been there from another gun.
The legislation does not include revolvers since they do not eject there casings. Grooves are fine and can be matched up to the gun only if the gun is found with the bullet or sometime later. The stamping, really there will be two stamps on the shell casing which if found by police can be traced back to the owner of the gun, kind of like a license plate on a vehicle. The article I read also dealt with criminals fleecing up other non criminals ejected casings from autos and leaving them (planting) at a scene of a crime, and it also mentioned that criminals do not purchase weapons legally so there would be no way to trace back to them. If this happens all lawbiding citizens who own these autos need to pick up your casings, gaurd them like you do your identity.
Again these bone heads are going after law biding citizens, toughen up on the criminals. I am with you on that.
(Elvis the original Anonymous)
I'm not a brainiac when it comes to much of anything, much less guns.. so forgive my ignorance.
Just what we need... go out plinking in the boonies (or at the local range) and forget to pick up your casings. Bam! Someone snags them, and then incriminates you by planting these casings at the scene of a proposed crime. All these legislative proposals are just smokescreens to put gun mfrs out of business and law-abiding (yes, LAW-ABIDING) citizens from their 2nd Amendment rights. If Germany in the '40s didn't set an example of what can happen, then what?
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