You forgot to post this L
The author is a twit.
Typical propaganda. THere's nothing "common sense" about trusting a technology that is far from perfected, and that would prove virtually impossible to implement anyway. How many variations do these idiots think there are in a given caliber and a given manufacturer? One .243 Model 700 Remington is going to have nearly identical ballistic markings to the next, considering they are produced using CNC machining that allows for only the most miniscule deviations from the blueprint.
But "ballistic fingerprinting" is the new magic pill for the anti-gun set. There is almost no way hundreds of thousands of ballistic fingerprints will yield only one qualifying set, meaning that the first time it is used it could yield false positives and ruin someone's life.
This is an idea whose time has not come, and probably never will.
That said, Ms. McCarty should also note that the president DID agree to finance a study of the technology.
But this isn't really about that anyway, is it, Ms. McCarty?
Does anyone have an e-mail address for this latte lefty?
See the first link for my take on this subject.
Congressman Billybob
But that wouldn't make any difference to you would it, not if it interfered with YOUR agenda.
First point: common sense gun-control measures violate the Constitution just as much as outrageous gun-control measures. In fact, there's no distinction between common-sense and outrageous -- No law means No law!
Then again, maybe it was the president's reason for opposing fingerprinting: It would violate the privacy of gun owners.
But the Leftists love privacy! Are they saying that Republicans cannot claim privacy as a motivating factor? Why not? Isn't abortion justified (to a leftist) by the Constitutional Right to Privacy (which doesn't exist). It seems that the Right to Privacy is one of those things that comes and goes: It's there when Leftists want it there, but it's gone when Conservatives want it.
This is why the Cosntitution should not be a "living" document: it means what it means. It's not OK to wake up and discover different meanings depending on the weather.
That can be altered in a few moments in a dozen different ways ie: file, sandpaper, steelwool, drill, lapping compound, plain old neglect, rust, barrel change, firing pin change, extractor change, besides the perp would have to be stupid to use a gun that is tied to him as the original owner etc, etc.
She wants somebody to pass a law that will make the sniper bad guys stop. We already got twenty thousand of them on the books, that the sniper(s) care less about than the people they are killing. The best way to stop them is, for a good guy with a gun (police or citizen), to shoot them first.
Learn how to "unfingerprint" a gun in 20 minutes - with common gun tools...
BTW, she slipped up on her talking points- she's supposed to slur the phrase "NRA/Gun Lobby" together in one sibilant slander of distaste, like the congresscritters do when they talk on TV...
It's only a reasonable restriction of the kind that we submit to when we register our cars.
Uhh... hold the phone a minute there, Mary... aren't they looking for a white van?
Aren't all vehicles registered?
And this has helped how?
the most rudimentary, common sense gun-control measures.
How is gun registration in any form "common sense" when the supreme court has ruled that it is against the law to require any felon to register their gun (self-incrimination)?
My only guess is that "common sense" is a totaly foreign concept to Ms. McCarty.
