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To: Jim from C-Town
Does the person dropping off the gun need a picture ID to complete the transaction.?

All of the “buy back” programs I ever read about is a no questions asked purchase of guns. So no there is no ID of the seller.

Several but not all of the buy backs I have read about said that there would be ballistics test of the guns to find if they were used in a crime.

This has always seemed a stupid waste of time to me because of the no questions asked policy. I also thought that is would be next to impossible because of the number of guns these programs could produce, the man hours required for a ballistics tech to check all of the guns would be enormous. Not to mention that the chances of a gun used in a crime showing up at one of these buy backs is incredibly small.

4 posted on 09/18/2014 5:28:33 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac
Ballistic tests are very limited in their application. They are not like serial numbers.

On some models, the marks left on bullets are so similar, that all a ballistic test can tell you is the caliber and generic model, such as “it was fired from a 9mm Glock”.

I recall one case where several officers were firing during an altercation. Ballistics could not determine which gun the fatal bullet came from.

5 posted on 09/19/2014 7:28:34 AM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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