Well, I guess that depends on how you define “improperly”.
For the “Great Gay Legislator” complete and total confiscation of all privately held firearms would be completely appropriate.
And as for how do you get this guy? It is already too late to use any such method to get this guy. He already has his weapon and it has not been fingerprinted. Any future sniper could easily acquire an un-fingerprinted weapon or by simply changing the barrel on a fingerprinted weapon, change its ballistic fingerprint.
The Democrats are terribly good at this and manage to buy a few votes along the way.
How, could anyone with an once of intellect,believe that ballistic finger printing would work?
A barrel re-do, which is a quite common practice, would have them chasing their tail more so than they already are.
How do you get this guy?
. Passing the Homeland Security Bill would be a step in the right direction.
The great lie in all of this is that the "science" of ballistic fingerprinting exists. There is no classification and indexing system that would take you from an unknown bullet or shell case to a known, registered example. If you have a perfect set of ten fingerprints, you can go the the FBI fingerprint file and be led to a drawer (or computer file) where there may be one, none, or a hundred close matches. At that point, a trained lab expert has to maually compare prints, and hope for a match.
The gun grabbers, in doing their usual blood dance, have told their usual lies, and are saying a ready-made science exists when it can never work. This is another form of lie like the "smart gun", which is always just around the corner, technologically.
However, since it would take several years to "fingerprint" every gun, you can bet that your firearm will be lost or misplaced before they can get around to returning it to you.
Ask the state police that do "ballistic fingerprinting" how many cases it has solved. The answer is "zero". Ask them how often they even try to use the system, and you'll get the same answer, because it can't work. Their "science" is just smoke and mirrors.
By the way, I remember reading a few years ago that Los Angeles solved the problem of street shootings by installing a computerized sound tracking system that would triangulate the site of a shooting in under a second, and dispatch police. They boasted that shootings would then be impossible in LA. Since it worked so well, why aren't they using it in DC?