- That the firearm barrel and firing pin have not been modified, replaced, deformed from normal use, or intentionally falsified with new ballistic markings.
- That all 200 million firearms lawfully possessed by Americans are brought into labs and fired to gather individual ballistic "fingerprinting."
- That all violent criminals, and people who might become one, also bring in their firearms for "fingerprinting."
- That all ballistic "fingerprinting" files are stored in a national database.
- That an expended bullet or shell casing be recovered from a crime scene.
- That the bullet or shell casing conclusively match the ballistic "fingerprinting" of a firearm owned by a person stored in the database.
- That the firearm has not been sold, transferred, stolen or gifted to another person.
- That the person, now a criminal suspect, still possess that firearm at a current address.
Joint Statement On Ballistic "Fingerprinting"
Thursday, October 17, 2002
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