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In reply to the discussion: A Sensible Safe Smart Gun Law - Guess Who Hates It [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)...the recovered casing from a crime scene would have to be traceable to the person that committed the crime.
Since career criminals don't register their guns, and generally get them illegally anyway, the hypothetical recovered casing with the markings on them will lead to a dead-end, just like if the criminal had left the gun lying next to the victim.
"Ah, this gun was stolen 5 years ago from a guy in Sacramento." That's really helpful, right?
And if the gun is actually used by the rightful, registered owner to commit a crime (say, killing a neighbor or a family member) then the information will be redundant.
It's lots of money and man-hours and effort for very little, if any, benefit.
I'll betcha a thousand Italian lira that more people get busted for having their paperwork on their microstamped guns out of order than are arrested solely because the microstamping led to a criminal that otherwise would have gotten away.