Reply #23: In short, this only works if the government has a firearm registry [View All]

[krispos42]

of some kind. In this case, the firing pin would have your gun's serial number etched in it so that each time the gun fired, it would stamp the number into the primer of the cartridge.

But this only works if they have a national registry of firearms. But, since most crimes are committed with stolen guns...

Also, note that this does not cover revolvers, which do not spray spent cases all over the ground.

The question is, how do you feel about having your private stuff on a federal registry? Lots of crime is committed using computers as a major tool. Would you like having to register your computer with the federal government? How about each spool of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs having a serial number on every disc, with that number registered with the Feds?

Or how about money? How would you like it if every time you went to the ATM and withdrew cash, the machine logged your name and the serial numbers of the bills you got and put them in a federal database someplace? If Bush proposed this plan tomorrow, would you think a) power grab, or b) Bush really cares about lowering crime?