Solution to gun control: Bullet Database?

Before a gun can be sold, it first has to be fired the bullet collected and entered into a national database.





We have a national fingerprint database why not a bullet database?Solution to gun control: Bullet Database?
But my fingerprints are not put into that database until I commit a crime and processed for charges or become a civil servant of sorts.





So leave me, my guns, and my ammo to ourselves.





What part of shall not be infringed do people not understand.





Gun Control Defined.......


A theory espoused by some people; who claim to believe, against all logic and


common sense, that a violent predator who ignores the laws prohibiting them from robbing, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings will obey a law telling them that they cannot own a gun.





http://www.youtube.com/user/DOUGandFRIEN鈥?/a>Solution to gun control: Bullet Database?
It's been tried in New York and Maryland. After a few years, the police departments were begging the state legislators to repeal the law. It was costing them millions of dollars to maintain the database and not one single crime had ever been solved by it. They have much better uses for the money.





The reason it doesn't work is there's no such thing as a ballistic fingerprint. The patterns on your fingers are built into your body and they don't change. Guns are just pieces of metal. They wear and change every time they're fired. Two bullets fired from the same gun with five hundred rounds between them won't match. If you're in a hurry, running a piece of sandpaper down the barrel a few times will have the same effect.





Further, criminals buy their guns on the black market, not from gun shops. So, even if the gun is in the database, its information won't point to the criminal, only the last legal owner.
Barrels are easily changed, in many pistols, removing the barrel is part of the cleaning process. I can change the barrel in a Colt 1911 in under one minute, and replacement barrels can be had for as little as $30. In fact, I know people that keep spare barrels around so that if they shoot someone they can dispose of the used barrel.





From a more practical point, a match of a bullet to one in the database would prove only one thing, that the barrel in the gun at the time of the shooting was from a particular lot of barrels. A barrel is made by drilling a hole through the barrel blank, and then drawing a tool known as a broach to cut the rifling. These tools will cut hundreds of barrels without substantial wear, so the only thing that could be said about that bullet is that it came from manufacturer X, and was made between date Y and date Z. In other words, it is one of about 1000 to 3000 barrels.





As to your database, several states in the union have a law requiring a fired case to be sent to the state police when a new gun is sold. These fired cases are then supposed to be used to allow a trace of the gun in case of a crime. This has been going on for over a decade, and to my knowledge, no crime had ever been solved by matching one of these cases. This system has had an impact on crime in one way, it has taken money and manpower off the street, undoubtedly increasing crime. It has also worked as a tax on all honest law abiding citizens, which in my eyes is criminal.





If you want to effect a reduction in crime, call your local DA and insist that he apply all laws relating to the criminal using a gun. In most cases these laws are the first that are plea bargained out.
Unless someone commits a crime or goes into the military or works for the government they aren't in the national fingerprint database. Your proposal makes the assumption that all guns are potential crime tools. Seems like unreasonable search and seizure to me, yet another attack on the Bill of Rights.
Unfortunately the criminals don't buy their guns from legitimate gun shops and they're the people who need their guns taken away, not the average hard working, tax paying, law abiding citizen. So the billions that would go into that program would be a waste of money because probably 99% of those bullets tested will never surface in a crime.
The states nor general government needs a database on gun owners.
Why not a database of freedom hating liberals.
That's been tried in New York at the state level, with no useful results.
That would be too easy to get around.





Although a gun database would help.
Do you know how easy it is to change out a barrel?