Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Gun ballistic fingerprints

You've heard about that, right? It involves taking a round fired from a gun and keeping it on file so that any crimes committed with that gun can be tracked down.

Well, it doesn't work. Anyone familiar with firearms could tell you that. First of all, the marks left by the barrel change over time as the gun is fired. If you shoot quite a bit, it changes even faster. My gun has had well over 1000 rounds put through it since I got it, and if you were to compare a round from my first range session to a round from my last, the marks would be different. And that's just one example out of many.

And people are finally admitting it.

Thank god SOME people see the light.

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