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From: [e-mail] (Ashley)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: That GUN flame --
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Date: 20 Nov 92 17:37:35 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Gary) writes...
>I've always found it funny that the people who are the least
>trusting in the government and it's actions also happen to
>be the most rabidly into gun control (banning.)
>
(.....................)
>
>Gary
>

    Allright gun fans and owners and whatever name you like for your-self,
let's try this one on for size.

    I recently spoke by e-mail with someone at the FBI in Quantico VA. He
suggested a method of gun control that makes sense (no not banning). All guns
would be registered with a balistic test on file. I don't fully understand what
all this involved, but I do understand that every gun leaves it's "fingerprint"
on the bullet and casing when fired. Anyway, this would give law-enforcement
the ability to trace the gun (if it was registered) when bullets and casings
come up as evidence in a crime scene. Of course this is no good in most
organized crime cases, but if your registered gun was stolen and then used in
a crime in another state, that is a valuable clue to catching the criminal. You
would know that the criminal had either bought the gun from the thief, or if it
was used again in another crime, say a burgalary, you would know within a good
percentage that you where looking for the same person in each case. Although
this sounds wonderful, the "ballistic fingerprint" registration probably would
not work in most crime investigations. But still it would in a few, and
whatever evidence it gives is worth the registration and test firing, isn't it?


                    - Ashley