Mark of the Beast, or common sense?

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Identifying the firearm used in a crime is one of the biggest challenges for criminal investigators.

But what if a shell casing picked up at a murder scene could immediately be tracked to the gun that fired it?

A technique that uses laser technology and stamps a numeric code on shell casings can do just that.

Microstamping works much like an ink stamp.

Lasers engrave a unique microscopic numeric code on the tip of a gun’s firing pin and breach face.

When the gun is fired, the pressure transfers the markings to the shell casings.

By reading the code imprinted on casings found at a crime scene, police officers can identify the gun and track it to the purchaser, even when the weapon is not recovered.

Microstamping say it offers advantages over ballistic analysis, which has been used for more than a century and depends on matching incidental tool marks on bullets and cartridge casings to show that a particular weapon was used.

Under this system, when a cartridge casing is found to match one already entered in a computer database, like the one maintained by the government’s National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, a forensic examiner must confirm the match.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/us/code-on-shell-casings-sparks-a-gun-debate.html?pagewanted=all
 
If the criminal is going to use an unregistered firearm, what are the odds he's going to use an unregistered shell casing as well?
 
Threedee said:
If the criminal is going to use an unregistered firearm, what are the odds he's going to use an unregistered shell casing as well?
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Is that a reason to oppose the technology?

Criminals could file off the code or replace the firing pin. And the technology would not apply to revolvers, which do not discharge cartridge casings.
 
Threedee said:
If the criminal is going to use an unregistered firearm, what are the odds he's going to use an unregistered shell casing as well?
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That's a sad argument to oppose this measure.

I don't get why gun rights activists & the NRA oppose stuff like this. Honestly, it seems like they are pro-crime. This is a common sense measure that helps law enforcement, period. It is not an infringement on the 2nd amendment or a threat to any law-abiding gun owner.

It's the exact reason people see the NRA as extreme.
 
Onceler said:
That's a sad argument to oppose this measure. I don't get why gun rights activists & the NRA oppose stuff like this. Honestly, it seems like they are pro-crime. This is a common sense measure that helps law enforcement, period. It is not an infringement on the 2nd amendment or a threat to any law-abiding gun owner. It's the exact reason people see the NRA as extreme.
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Knee-jerk reaction from the gun lobby?
 
Let me see.... Make the gun, sell it to dealer. Dealer sells gun. Later gun is used in crime. They read the code, go to dealer, get receipt show up at Bob's house and question him because he bought the gun.

I can see benefit from it, and some negatives. I can see more argument for registries so they don't have to go to the dealer step, bad idea IMO.

Criminal organizations will not be purchasing their weapons legally. I don't see this working for Gangs, etc but for regular Joe Schmoe? Whacking your neighbor will be much more difficult to get away with. Overall, from what I see, so long as people don't let it get to the registration point this will have larger benefit than negative.
 
one would think that after the wasted millions and useless firearm list and tracking databases that have been implemented, yet have failed to solve a single crime, would be enough for the anti gunners to quit. I guess they are dumber than we thought.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
one would think that after the wasted millions and useless firearm list and tracking databases that have been implemented, yet have failed to solve a single crime, would be enough for the anti gunners to quit. I guess they are dumber than we thought.
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Failed to solve a single crime? That's absurd.

As is the claim that this is an "anti gun" measure. It's pro law enforcement, and common sense.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
one would think that after the wasted millions and useless firearm list and tracking databases that have been implemented, yet have failed to solve a single crime, would be enough for the anti gunners to quit. I guess they are dumber than we thought.
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Care to show where you got this statistic?
 
Onceler said:
Failed to solve a single crime? That's absurd.
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canada spent over a billion dollars on their long arm registry before finally dissolving it. It never solved a single crime. Massachussets STILL spends millions on their handgun registry, it has never solved a single crime.

Onceler said:
As is the claim that this is an "anti gun" measure. It's pro law enforcement, and common sense.
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it's never common sense to WASTE millions on something that is not going to work, therefore doesn't become pro law enforcement, only anti gun.
 
Onceler said:
That's a sad argument to oppose this measure.

I don't get why gun rights activists & the NRA oppose stuff like this. Honestly, it seems like they are pro-crime. This is a common sense measure that helps law enforcement, period. It is not an infringement on the 2nd amendment or a threat to any law-abiding gun owner.

It's the exact reason people see the NRA as extreme.
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So long as the costs of implementation are closer to the $12 per gun and not the $200 per gun, I would agree with the above.
 
As an avid gun user and shooter who makes less than 50K per year I question the cost to the consumer of the implementation of this technology.
 
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