Posted on 12/30/2002 10:36:38 AM PST by new cruelty
New crimebusting technology on the scene
By ADRIANNA BORKOWSKI, UPI Business Correpondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Trace the microscopic bumps and ridges that are burned and scraped into a criminal's discharged ammunition and you may have the key to unlocking a series of violent crimes.
That's what one of Forensics Technology Inc.'s products does.
The Montreal-based company's IBIS -- Integrated Ballistics Identification System -- decodes a gun's "DNA" from bullets and cartridge casings. The company was created when a Canadian law enforcement officer approached businessman Robert Walsh in 1990 with an idea for using machine vision in forensics.
"For me it was fascinating. It was something that had never been done before, and there was a definite confirmed problem in law enforcement -- the volume of evidence was too high, and they didn't have enough resources," said Walsh, president of FTI.
Within a year, Walsh created imaging machines and computers that captured the images of a bullet, translated the image into pixels and numbers and stored the information in a database.
"I found that unlike in the industrial sector, (the) law enforcement or forensic labs were an underserved market. People were certainly selling software, but for someone to go with an integrated approach to a specific problem, not many people were doing that," Walsh said.
FTI, a privately owned company since its 1992 incorporation, has grown quickly, from an initial three or four employees to 240 employees. They have been contracted in 29 countries including Colombia, Israel, South Africa and Russia and Algeria.
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Oops, they only did that after other leads pointed investigators in that direction. Nevermind... /sarcasm
Sounds A-OK. This is a BFD and they need do do this ASAP on the QT before we are all DOA and RIP.....
Oh excuse me, only fools would believe this. About 25 passes with JB borepast and BINGO! no more ID marks.
There is no end to the number of idiots available to swallow whatever drivel there are fed.
A gun does not have a DNA. DNA by its very nature acknowledges that DNA is not changeable under any possible conditions therefore DNA is safe to be used as a reference.
Until you can file, or edit, a person's DNA I think it is a lie to assert that guns have DNA.
One of Murphy's Laws states, "There is no such thing as a foolproof system, because fools are so ingenious."
I was making fun of all the letters they use to describe everything. I should have added /saracsm off:)
This is a dumb idea. For numerous reasons. But hey, they have 240 people employed! The rats would think that's reason enough to keep contracting for this garbage.
You should probably try to understand the concept before you post more foolish remarks. Posters on this forum have a responsibility to be factual or state when their writing is unsubstantiated opinion.
Why do you believe this technology has anything to do with bullets and/or firearm barrels?
The technology is here and it works. It deals primarily with fired shellcases and the telltale marks left on the shellcase after firing a cartridge in a particular firearm. Moderate gunsmithing skills and tools are needed to offer even a fair chance of defeating the system. All machining marks must be removed from the firearms breech face, firing pin, ejector, extractor and chamber. Please dont waste anyones time by rebutting that barrels can be changed, firing pins can be changed, etc.
Constitutional issues abound but you are barking up the wrong tree to fight this on a technology basis.
you are barking up the wrong tree to fight this on a technology basis.Do you own a firearm? Where do you get your information from? Do you know how easy it is to stone and polish the hammer? Or how simple it is to replace the firing pin? Do you even realize that most firearms do NOT eject the shell casings automatically so how exactly would they retrieve them to match the fingerprinting? Not to mention that if this system goes into effect the perps could just pick up the shell casings from firearms that do eject them. Do you even realize that you can get a "shell catcher" for just about any semi-auto firearm and that it will then store any ejected shells; therefore there will be none to be found???
Moderate gunsmithing skills and tools are needed to offer even a fair chance of defeating the systemJust about anyone and everyone who owns a firearm has these skills or has the capability of learning them. Why? Because anyone who owns a firearm and actually uses it has to clean it and doing the things mentioned previously are not any harder than what one alreadys has to do to clen their firearm. It's not rocket science by any means.
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