[two23]

"What would the downside be?"

1) Firearms get sold or stolen...a stolen weapon could be used in a crime.

2) It's an infringment on our 2nd Amendment gaurantee

3) "printing" a bore or firing pin does not make a criminal pop up out of the world to be arressted.

4) There may be some question about use of firearm changing the "imprint"---metal changes from use and wear.

[iconoclast]

"What would the downside be?"

Respectfully, I'm still asking.

IMO your only pertinent point is your #2, and the second amendment has long since and way worse been infringed than by what this firing pin print thing would do.

[ET(end tyranny)]

1) Firearms get sold or stolen...a stolen weapon could be used in a crime.

Wouldn't this have a trade off? Say your gun gets stolen. You report it. Later someone is shot, they not only would know that you didn't have anything to do with it, but they now know exactly what to look for.

2) It's an infringment on our 2nd Amendment gaurantee

How so? It would't PREVENT you from buying a gun. It wouldn't even make it more difficult for you to purchase a gun. You could still have your gun. I see no infringement. In fact, it is less intrusive than certain regulations already in place that DO delay or make it more difficult to purchase a gun.

3) "printing" a bore or firing pin does not make a criminal pop up out of the world to be arressted.

Covered up above.

[dmz]

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Share with me where the second amendment even touches on the question of "printing" a bore or firing pin. You obviously have every right to object to this being done, but it ain't on the basis of the 2nd amendment.

Respectfully, I believe you are as guilty of reading things into the 2nd amendment as are the anti-guns.

{Flame suit ON}

[Sender]

Speaking of "fingerprinting" guns and the like, some twit on a nameless, competing BB for blithering liberal idiots yesterday started a thread about how "if the government registered these high-powered deer rifles (?) like they do boats and cars, they'd have picked up this nutcase about 30 minutes after the first shooting." Others on the BB naturally asked, "How?". Round the evil doers all up, of course. Just get em all, go right down the list of gun owners and then the rest of us will be safe.

I was heartened to see that even the blithering liberals attacked him and told him how stupid and unconstitutional that would be.

[MrNeutron1962]

"What would the downside be?"

1) Firearms get sold or stolen...a stolen weapon could be used in a crime.

Yes, and then some of our socialist paradise states can then enact laws making the registered owner of the firearm used to perpetrate a crime civilly liable for not ‘Controlling the Weapon’ or some other such nonsense.

4) There may be some question about use of firearm changing the "imprint"---metal changes from use and wear.

It can also be easily modified to give a different pattern, but anyone with machinist skills. This was driven home to me as a teenager, when a fellow trade school student, built his own 0.22 revolver with only the basic machine tools in his fathers basement. The damn thing worked pretty good too, I can just imagine what someone with 20 years experience as a die maker could produce.