Bad Dogs Bad Neighbor

[bigtiller]

I wouldn't use anything they can match and trace to me. You do know all guns sold in the last decade or longer have been shot and ballistic catalogued before sale? When they find your bullet somewhere, they already have gun and serial number it matches to. Then it's just a matter of who owns the gun now. Our government has done got dirty about things.

You are responsible for your bullet, when it leaves the barrel you still own it.
The government got this one right.

 

[Jstpssng]

You are responsible for your bullet, when it leaves the barrel you still own it.
The government got this one right.

This one can't be given enough

 

[MossRoad]

I wouldn't use anything they can match and trace to me. You do know all guns sold in the last decade or longer have been shot and ballistic catalogued before sale? When they find your bullet somewhere, they already have gun and serial number it matches to. Then it's just a matter of who owns the gun now. Our government has done got dirty about things.

Paper money does not have RFID embedded.
Guns are not ballistically catalogued before sale.

 

[fatjay]

I wouldn't use anything they can match and trace to me. You do know all guns sold in the last decade or longer have been shot and ballistic catalogued before sale? When they find your bullet somewhere, they already have gun and serial number it matches to. Then it's just a matter of who owns the gun now. Our government has done got dirty about things.

I promise you, that's pure fantasy. It's not even easy to tell if it's .38 vs .380 vs 9mm. Yes, the government is trying, but they're miles away from that. Bullets fragment and deform, if you have the gun already and fire a test into gel, then compare it to the bullet in a body, you maybe have 50% chance of telling whether it has been fired from the same gun. To much CSI these days.

 

[scaredychicken]

Dollars to Doughnuts, I'll bet that the 26 year old dipstick IS ALREADY ON PROBATION, I'll bet his PO would love to hear the story. That could lead to charges, breaches of probation, extra attention ... all the stuff that the adult-basement-dweller would probably like to avoid.

 

[Dftodd]

Paper money does not have RFID embedded.
Guns are not ballistically catalogued before sale.

I actually have one pistol 22LR/ 22mag revolver that was ballistics tested Wife bought it for me off a "friend". And they were pretty quick to point out that it in fact had been ballistics tested by the local PD before it was offered up for sale.

I'm thinking that there was a story there some where that I really don't want to know

 

[bigtiller]

Paper money does not have RFID embedded.
Guns are not ballistically catalogued before sale.

I think you may be right...
I dug up the paper work and manual for my 13 year old Ruger revolver.
Back then, some states required hand guns to be test fired and the case be put in a sealed container along with pertinent information.

After the sale, the dealer in those states had to send the case a designated destination such as their state police laboratory.

Iowa wasn't one of those states back then because I have the test fired case in the envelope it came in.

I don't know what they did with the case then, and I have no idea if the law is still in effect.

 

[jaxs]

I actually have one pistol 22LR/ 22mag revolver that was ballistics tested Wife bought it for me off a "friend". And they were pretty quick to point out that it in fact had been ballistics tested by the local PD before it was offered up for sale.

I'm thinking that there was a story there some where that I really don't want to know

Ruger Single Six? I bought one new over 50 years ago for my wife that had never fired a pistol. She still injoys plinking with LRs in the cylinder. Some question it's ability to stop an intruder or humanly dispatch varmints but I believe being comfortable firing it coupled with ability to group well more than make up for fewer grains of lead. Not that I think she will ever use it on the neighbors or their dogs.

 

[MossRoad]

I actually have one pistol 22LR/ 22mag revolver that was ballistics tested Wife bought it for me off a "friend". And they were pretty quick to point out that it in fact had been ballistics tested by the local PD before it was offered up for sale.

I'm thinking that there was a story there some where that I really don't want to know

Yeah, that would make sense for the police department to check ballistics on a firearm before selling it to see if it's been used in a crime. You didn't get it new from a factory, which is what "the person" is arguing.

 

[MossRoad]

Ruger Single Six? I bought one new over 50 years ago for my wife that had never fired a pistol. She still injoys plinking with LRs in the cylinder. Some question it's ability to stop an intruder or humanly dispatch varmints but I believe being comfortable firing it coupled with ability to group well more than make up for fewer grains of lead. Not that I think she will ever use it on the neighbors or their dogs.

As someone once told me when we laughed at his .25...

"I'll bet you run just as fast if I point this at you and start shooting."

Now there's all kinds of arguments about stopping the threat, etc., but that point about deterrent is pretty valid. I'd guess most people that break into a house or try and carjack someone will retreat pretty fast once they start getting shot at be it a .22 or a .45.