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Proposed Firearm Database fails test:
Gun control nuts have shot themselves in the foot. New study to test the creation of a ballistic “fingerprints” database of all new guns has found that many many guns have the SAME ballistic “fingerprints”!

The report also questioned the underlying theory behind ballistic imaging. It said the idea that each firearm produces unique marks has not been scientifically proven.

Collecting ballistic “fingerprints” from millions of new guns would create a database that would be too unreliable to be useful in solving gun crimes, a team of scientists said Wednesday.

The concept relies on the assumption that individual guns leave unique markings, like fingerprints, on bullets and shell casings. Some in Congress have said that every new gun should be test-fired so those markings can be entered into a database. Investigators could then use the database to identify which gun fired bullets found at crime scenes.

But the study said the idea is not feasible.

“Ballistics testing is only as useful as the number of images in the database,” Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., said while pushing for the database in 2002.

Actually, the opposite is true, Wednesday’s report said. The larger the database, the more errors the computer will return.

Under the current system, the computer might find 10 possible matches for a single bullet and there’s a good chance one of them will be confirmed. After adding more than 1 million guns to the database each year, the same system might produce hundreds of possible matches.

“It’s a scale problem,” said John Rolph, chairman of the group that completed the study. “If we’re talking about using this in criminal investigations, we’ve got to be able to get something that’s practically useful.”

Guncontrol nuts will now turn to microstamping because they have now destroyed the ballistic testing system.

Claims of Certainty About ‘Matches’ Without Firm Grounding

The report does not assess the admissibility of firearm toolmark evidence in legal proceedings, since making such a determination was not part of the committee’s charge. However, it cautions that the statement commonly made by firearms examiners that “matches” of ballistic evidence identify a particular source gun “to the exclusion of all other firearms” should be avoided. There is currently no statistical justification for such a statement, and it is inconsistent with the element of subjectivity inherent in any firearms examiner’s assessment of a match.

So how many criminals with this guncontrol falure let out of jail?

Guncontrol kills again as millions of crooks will use this study to get free and kill again.