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Originally Posted by kazzaerexys
This is standard ballistic forensics---find the bullet, match it to a barrel, and the barrel to the gun.
The joke is in requiring new guns to be shipped with fired rounds to be contributed to a state forensics laboratory so that future crimes can supposedly be matched against a traceable gun. This is, of course, a joke because illegally purchased guns will never have these fingerprint rounds put into the system and, if they were in the system once, were used for crime after being stolen, so that the S/N trace is no longer relevant to the crime under investigation.
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But according to Gun Facts and other sources the method is not effective in any way, due to the fact that but signiture changes with each round.
IE. The weapon that killed Martin Luther King Jr. was fire 18 times without providing 2 matching bullets.
Seems sort of parodoxial that we would support it as good evidence against a murderer, but say it is worthless when the same standard is applied to us.
One must be carefull, how they decide to fight evil, lest those methods be used against us.