identifying the slug is often impossible....
Sometimes. Identifying the shell casing would be found impossible some times also.
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and if it can be identified, the gun that shot it is out there among 300,000,000 other guns, ie needle in a haystack come to mind? A marking on the casing would make it trivial to prove which weapon it came from
Showing that a shell casing was fired from a particular gun, wouldn't show that the shell casing was used in a crime. One could argue that shell casing was fired from the gun at a range or out on a farm or something.
Depending on the type of gun, the shell casing might not be expelled. Even if a semi-automatic is used in a crime, the shell casings can be picked up.
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....what's wrong with that.....does it restrict your rights?
I don't know about rights. I've argued its generally useless to tie a shell casing to an individual gun. Now if you use this law to outlaw older guns w/o something to mark the shell casing, then you'd get into a rights problem.
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"From getting guns, nothing. However, they can defend themselves against criminals."
Therefore we should have the lowest crime rate in the world.....how many people are in our prisons now?
Crime rates and people in prison are two different things.
Crime rates aren't a good argument anyway. The higher the crime rate, the more law abiding citizens need to defend themselves.
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" .., cars, trucks, knives, etc are sold to criminals too. You want to restrict the right of the law-abiding to own those too?"
Marshmellows are sold to criminals also.... You know of any serial killer that used his car or truck as a murder weapon? You know of any mass murderer that did it with a knife?
People use cars and knives to kill people every day. We have a lady in prison here in TX who ran over her husband for cheating on her.
But why restrict things to "mass murderers"? Most "mass murderers" who grab women or children, rape and kill them, probbably don't even use guns anyway. |
