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More reform in TN

Posted by David Hardy · 12 March 2009 08:57 PM

Eliminating fingerprints for gun purchases. Sounds like "common sense gun control."

"Casada, of Franklin, cited Tennessee Bureau of Investigation information that the agency has only once asked for a thumbprint from the 2.3 million guns sold since the law went into effect in 1998. And he said that print was smudged and unusable."

Of course there was some opposition. "Rep. G.A. Hardaway, a Memphis Democrat who voted against the bill, suggested that fingerprinting procedures should be improved instead of abandoned."

Yep. That might have ensured that one fingerprint was good.

2 Comments | Leave a comment

fwb | March 13, 2009 12:09 PM | Reply

Finger prints are very often worthless except when the FBI claims it can ID someone using less that 10% of the fingerprint markings.

RIGHT!!

http://www.shirleymckie.com/index.htm

This case cost many people their careers because the bosses don't want the turh out. Check out what happened to the Scotland Yard Dick who stood up for Shirley.

Mike | March 13, 2009 8:03 PM | Reply

Idiocy. In nearly two decades of law enforcement service, I never solved a crime involving a firearm through fingerprints, abandoned brass left at a crime scene, or through any firearm records trace, nor did I know anyone who did. Why? Even if such methods worked perfectly in every instance, they would only indicate the identity of an original purchaser of a firearm or ammunition. Criminals tend not to buy guns or ammo honestly, and knowing an original purchaser is next to useless in proving that a given crime was committed by a given person on a given date and time and in a given place.

CSI-type TV shows aside (they're ridiculously inaccurate and have little relation to most of the law enforcement work in America), most crimes are solved through hard evidence obtained by talking to people.

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