A good Junk Science report on Fox today.
[A]n October 2001 report by California state ballistics experts — hushed up by the California attorney general’s office — concludes that ballistic fingerprinting isn’t feasible right now.
It gets better:
Maryland and New York already require ballistic fingerprinting. So far it hasn’t helped convict a single criminal in Maryland despite “fingerprinting” 17,000 guns sold since January 2000. New York hasn’t had success either.
Read the whole thing.
I’m in California and let me tell you, the people who would bother to get their guns fingerprinted aren’t going to kill anybody.
Why don’t we try to test ‘Ballistic Fingerprinting’ in Watts, Comptom, & Inglewood first and if it works there we’ll talk.
Somehow I don’t think it’ll be that big a success.