Ballistics Fingerprinting: A Waste of Time

Business Week Online ^ | October 24, 2002 | Paul Magnusson

[Timesink]

Washington's Beltway sniper has local politicians scrambling to gain advantage by appearing tough on guns. Take Montgomery County, Md., where most of the carnage has taken place. Two candidates for Congress, one a Democrat, the other Republican, each brag that they're more despised by the National Rifle Assn. than the other.

[Timesink]

I'm just going to post the con commentary. If you want to read the pro-fingerprinting commentary, click the link in the above article.

[Joe Brower]

Is a National Firearms Registry Unconstitutional?

[The KG9 Kid]

A multi-billion dollar database and physical evidence archive the size of Fort Knox isn't going to be as great a benefit to policework as the natural idiocy of criminals to fall asleep in their getaway cars already is.

[caisson71]

The whole point of the DemocRATS argument has nothing to do with reality - never does. They believe in "appearing" to do something, however stupid, and anyone who opposes their ridiculous legislative attempts are "for more killing" and what can be more horrible than that.

[RonKY]

That's because they "care" more. This is the same flawed principle behind the waiting period for gun purchases. It assumes all criminals will cooperate with the system. Fat chance of that.