‘A shame it can’t. It would help big time in police departments trying to match a casing with a weapon. Could solve a ton of murders and other crimes.”
Forgive my rudeness, but no, hell no.
To tag a specific serial numbered gun to a perpetrator would mean the gun would have to be registered in order for the number to match up to a person.
Now a criminal will not register a gun, so this law is stupid even if it’s possible to imprint all that data on a spent cartridge.
I can think of a whole host of problems, false arrests and convictions being one of them that could arise from such a dumba$$ law.
This is a clear infringement on the 2A.
I guess I didn’t think about the registration part. I was looking at it from a “clean” crime....where the police find the gun on the person who shot a person. They are the vast majority of murders. This whole “stealing a gun” to shoot someone is very rare unless it is a family member and the gun is in the house.