Todd Sullivan wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 TS> /Huh!/ Bad 60 minutes!  What'cha gon', what'cha gon, what'cha gonna
 TS> do, when Roy J. Tellason and I come for you?

 RJT>> Anybody else catch this nonsense on 60 minutes about "ballistic
 RJT>> fingerprinting"...?

 TS>> When I heard what was being said in the lead-up, I changed the
 TS>> channel. Anyone with a brain did the same.

 RJT> What,  you don't think it's important to see what the opposition is
 RJT> talking about on this topic?

 TS> Not really.  Even if there were valid point to be made, the sheer
 TS> hype would, I'm sure, have drowned it out.

 TS> As has been mentioned in here before, ballistic fingerprinting 
 TS> can't work. 

Agreed.  But as I was mentioning in my message to Vern,  it's not whether
it works or not that's the primary issue here.  It's whether people
_believe_ in it or not.

 TS> Change a barrel, replave a firing pin. swap out a receiver and you 
 TS> have a totally "new" weapon, as far as the system is concerned.

Sure.  How easy are those parts to find?

 TS> Normal wear and tear does the same thing, and I can't see anyone 
 TS> putting up with having to send in their firearms every month or so
 TS> to log the required changes.  The volume of data would clog the
 TS> system.

Yep.

 TS> Never mind those who would /deliberately/ change the 
 TS> characteristics, for whatever reasons.

A little work with a file...  Not a problem!

But this strikes me as something that we might see being pushed by certain
parties,  the fact that both MD and NY _require_ it being a pretty good
indicator of the nature of those parties.

I don't think it'll work either,  but I also don't think that we've heard
the last of this.

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