So Much for Gun Finger Printing

[308win]

This from today's Columbus Dispatch

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… New York has been “fingerprinting” every new handgun sold in the state for seven years to create a database of ballistics results. The idea was to match crimes with guns. More than 200,000 pistols and revolvers have been fired and marked, but not one prosecution has resulted from matching bullets involved in crimes against the database. … It’s estimated that one in 35 residents of Florida, a concealed-carry state, legally may carry a gun. The actual number of permits is 520,000, a 50 percent increase from three years ago.
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[Loosedhorse]

Anyone who was interested in the facts would have looked at the Canadian experience and known this is a waste of tax dollars.

But some groups aren't interested in facts. Watch somebody spin it: it's an "old gun loophole:" we have to mandate fingerprinting of every gun in existence, not just new guns. And the "gun trafficking loophole:" fingerprinting doesn't work unless the whole country does it (But the whole country of Canada did it--oh, then we need the whole world to do it!)

Instant universal gun registration.

If certain people win in November, it's interesting to think that the ONLY reason they might not adopt national firearm fingerprinting is that, with the economy and so many new social program initiatives to start, even they might think there's not enough money in the budget to start up fingerprinting.

This year....

 

[everallm]

Ditto for New York, where the response was

"Well after 7 years we NOW expect to start seeing results....honest....Oh, didn't we every say that?"