Armed and eating Pizza
Via Reason, Gun-toting in Georgia.
I do love that no one cared, no freaked out, nothing. You know why? Because it is an inanimate hunk of metal.
Posted in LawTags: Guns
Tags: Guns
Pollen coated bullets as an identifier
Via Grinding.be comes a New Scientist article over a new type of coating for bullets. The pollen like coating will adhere to the bullet, the casing, and the hands and the clothing of whoever fires them.
It is an interesting idea, without all of the baggage of microstamping. I’m not sure how I feel about; it avoids the massive invasion of privacy that a central registry of ballistic fingerprints would create, since theoretically at least this would only become active in the sense of being used when a bullet was fired in the commission of a crime. The identifier would be located on the bullet or the shell, and then matched to the shooter; no reference to any central database. Possible problems; the drive to make a central registry, where the bullets are linked to a person at point of sale, the problem of cross contamination during storage/handling/sale/firing, and the fact that there is plentiful ammunition out there right now.
Posted in Misc.Tags: Guns, Technology
