Heller Turned Away on First Day of Handgun Registration

[ccphilly1984]

Originally Posted by deputy

What good can come about test firing a bullet and sending it to the police for database purposes. If anyone owns a glock, all they have to do is get a replacement barrel and bam there goes your registered ballistic fingerprint.

PS I smell another lawsuit coming.

glocks are all machiene guns according to DC ... ROTFL! that asshole government... excuse my spanish... but that's the least offensive word i oculd find.

[Jackal]

Originally Posted by deputy

What good can come about test firing a bullet and sending it to the police for database purposes. If anyone owns a glock, all they have to do is get a replacement barrel and bam there goes your registered ballistic fingerprint.

PS I smell another lawsuit coming.

Perhaps, but other parts of the gun leave their mark too.

[deputy]

True. I will use NY as an example. Every gun bought in NY must have 1 test round with it so it can be mailed to the NYSP. The NYSP use the ballistic data on the head for comparison during a shooting. Such things as striker indents and such are not taken into account. So if one say committed a crime with another barrell installed in their weapon, it can not be traced back to that particular weapon. What a friggin waste of time and energy.

[Jackal]

I don't deny what you say Deputy, I do find it hard to believe that forensic examiners would only look at the evidence left by the barrel. Although, I could see the striker and feed ramp grooves on a shell being damning evidence but certainly not conclusive.