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Harrold

On 11/16/2014 12:07 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 07:32:55 -0500, Harrold wrote:

Maybe not. Ballistics checks on those guns might tie them to unsolved
crimes. I hope you keep your bills of sales for gun purchases.

I think "ballistics tests" are more of a hoax than a science.
Certainly I agree, if you have a fresh bullet to compare to one
recently fired from a suspect gun, you can get a reasonable match but
if you are comparing a bullet fired from a new gun to one fired
several thousand rounds later, I doubt it would match all that well.

I have said before, how much difference would there be between 2 guns
that came off the same line on the same day. If you can believe all of
that "tool mark" forensics we hear about,. 2 barrels made by the same
machine sequentially should have very similar tool marks. It would
definitely be closer than one of those barrels that had a few thousand
rounds worth of barrel erosion.

That may be why Maryland has yet to solve a crime from all of those
bullets they have been collecting.

BTW why would I need a bill of sale for guns I own?
I might understand it for one I sold, if it traced back to me somehow
but I probably only have 2 that could be and I have no plans to sell
them.

To help your lawyer prove that a gun wasn't in your possession when a
crime was committed with it.