Police Can Track Bullet Casings Like Fingerprints Now

[snooper2]

VICE




Published on Jul 17, 2017
Last week the Trump administration announced that additional ATF officers were being sent to Chicago to help tackle the city’s gun violence problem. Those agents are making use of a new high-tech tool - a ballistic testing van linked to the ATF’s interstate database “Integration Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) - on loan to the city for the summer. According to Chicago Tribune, there have been 1924 shootings in Chicago this year. Meanwhile, Cincinnati police have been leading the way using the NIBIN tool - linking bullet casings found at multiple crime scenes to one gun, and one criminal. The tool could help keep shooters off the streets. Vice News looked at the challenges in implementing it.

[Not Ruth]

1. Leave the gun and take the cannoli

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. That ought to create a lot of "burner" guns.

If the gun is illegal, as apparently a lot of gang guns are, you might could link one gun to multiple shootings, but not to only one shooter.
Not all guns are registered.

[BASE]

3. You'd have to have the gun to start with

I think most guns have been shipping with a fired case for a while now. Not sure but probably CA requires turning that in when registering. 99% get thrown in the trash.

Would def help linking crimes and then prosecuting when you get a suspects gun but it's a far cry from a fingerprint database as most guns won't be in it.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

4. Don't fired cases probably HAVE fingerprints on them?

On teevee, only government assassins actually wipe their ammo before use; run-of-the-mill killers never do.

[AngryAmish]

5. A lot of guns used in crime are rented

These losers hardly have the ability to buy a gun. You need to know these shitheads are very stupid and are too dumb to even have a job. But they can rent a gun for $25.