Given the rarity of a gun trace having anything to do with solving a crime, why do so many people have their shorts in a bunch over "untraceable" guns?
11/22/2019 8:54 PM
Bill said...
Given the rarity of a trace, period.
11/23/2019 9:22 AM
Ed said...
It is not that the firearms are unserialized, but that a serial number is not recorded by some government entity. The serial number itself does not confer some talismanic magical properties to the firearm.
Stop recording the serial numbers, destroy the records of serial numbers and the lack of a serial number becomes a non-problem. After all, it is the inappropriate usage of the object, not the unique properties of the object such as a serial number that is the issue.
11/23/2019 4:49 PM
“About a third of all firearms seized in Southern California now are unserialized, and that is expected to grow,” Ginger Colbrun, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles region’s ATF office, told The Times in August. [More]
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11/22/2019 8:54 PM
Given the rarity of a trace, period.
11/23/2019 9:22 AM
It is not that the firearms are unserialized, but that a serial number is not recorded by some government entity. The serial number itself does not confer some talismanic magical properties to the firearm.
Stop recording the serial numbers, destroy the records of serial numbers and the lack of a serial number becomes a non-problem. After all, it is the inappropriate usage of the object, not the unique properties of the object such as a serial number that is the issue.
11/23/2019 4:49 PM