Posted on 10/17/2002 5:22:48 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The key words are "most likely" there is nothing guaranteed in any of this. Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
BLOAT, Cache, and take names!
The key words are "most likely" there is nothing guaranteed in any of this. Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
The beltway sniper has demonstrated that the Government absolutely can't and won't be responsible for an individuals safety.
I have more (related) questions:
Will they also fingerprint and get DNA profiles on every citizen and permanent resident (not just gun owners)? If so, just how will they sell it? How will they get it past the courts?
What will prevent gun owners from getting new barrels, firing pins, extractors, etc. (for the sake of better accuracy, you know)? This will destroy the effectiveness of the database.
What about guns the gov't knows nothing about, like pre-'68 purchases (no Form 4473), war trophies (doubtless millions over the course of the last century) and illegal imports?
This whole furor over ballistic fingerprinting is actually good - it shows the lefties for what they are (sponsors of feel-good but do-nothing legislation, dancers on the graves of murder victims, ignorant SOBs related to a subject that the claim to know so much about, etc.).
Make no mistake (and most of us here haven't), ballistic fingerprinting isn't about solving crimes now or in the future - it is all about registration of guns and gun owners.
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