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Microstamping obsolete?

Arto

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The cops in England have a method of finding fingerprints on fired rounds:
this was in the March Mechanical Engineering magazine too:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020084229.htm
http://www.northants.police.uk/default.aspx?id=5806
Basically, they can find the crooks fingerprints on fired brass/bullet micro-corrosion.
Sounds like it's been around a couple of years...

It appears the "microstamping" proposed by blowhard politicians is technically un-necessary & obsolete.

So maybe the politicians can stop harassing the lawful folks & focus on the "catch & release" "criminal justice(?)" system (yeah right)
 
Looks amazing, but...

Criminals will just learn to load their mags with gloves on.
 
well, the goal is an indirect ban by throwing as many "reasonable" restrictions in the way as possible, so microstamping is still in ... for the safety of the children, nuns and penguins.
 
I'm actually surprised this was made public.

A national organization representing criminal forensic technicians provided funding to CSI producers to air an episode where CSI investigators commened that a failure to feed on a Mac-10 left an unfired round in the chamber, allowing them to get a finger print since "fired rounds get too hot and it burns off the oils" to place this piece of disinformation in the public theatre.

The most common way to load a semi-auto magazine imprints a very clear thumb print on each case.
 
BTW - Micro-stamping has 3 functions:

1) Speed up the forensic process by providing evidence of the make, model and serial number of the firearm without having to do very time/processor/man-power intensive graphical comparison searchs. Finger Prints are great, but comparison databases for finger prints are HUGE databases and it can require hours to run a single print, often producing dozens of "likely" matches to be compared manually by technicians. Finger prints, like balistic tool marks, need to be stored as multiple very high resolution images to present any chance of serving as an effective matching tool.

2) Increase the cost of manufacturing and purchasing firearms and ammunition
3) Increase traciblity of firearms used in crimes to their legal purchasers as a deterant against providing a firearm to a criminal (or owning one, since you can be tied to it IF it is stolen and used in a crime)
 
Reptile said:
Looks amazing, but...

Criminals will just learn to load their mags with gloves on.
Click to expand...
True criminals will put on gloves before they open the box of ammo and load there mags. It still might help catch a few more criminals that are careless. It could actually hurt the chances of catching criminals because they are aware of how much more likley fingerprints will be attained it could make criminals that normally would not care about fingerprints on casings to take the extra step and make sure they don't have any finger prints.
 
well the problem is the premise that goal of microstamping is as told by politicians. The grim reality, you have to read between the lines and the actual goals of anti-gun legislation is rarely have anything to do with the advertised goals.
 

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