Thread: Is it legal?

Quote: Originally Posted by G50 The spent shell casing is not for "tracing" a gun. If investigators at a murder scene find the spent casing, they cannot find who owns the weapon by examining the marks on the primer etc. If they locate a suspect with a weapon they THINK is the murder weapon, then they can compare the striker to the primer and maybe even the bullet to the bore to use as evidence in court. The idea behind...

So I have a question... I assume the states that require the spent case that comes in the little bag to be turned in is for a forensics data base?? So is it legal to polish the breach and breach face on these pistols?!?!?!

i did

I don't know of any law that specifically prevents polishing or altering a firearm, unless when specifically connected with intentional alterations performed as an attempt to cover the identification of the firearm used in the commission of a crime. Barrels, strikers or hammers, extractors and ejectors and cylinders of revolvers are all legally replaceable parts. Removal of the identifying serial number from the frame is probably illegal....

it's actually supposed to be the bullet itself, i was told that if your firearm is stolen and the crooks remove the serail numbers, you can use the spent bullet to identify your weapon, and have it sent back to the manufacturer for replacement of the serial number.

Quote: Originally Posted by rm_fritz it's actually supposed to be the bullet itself, i was told that if your firearm is stolen and the crooks remove the serail numbers, you can use the spent bullet to identify your weapon, and have it sent back to the manufacturer for replacement of the serial number. That sounds like a whole bunch of CSI "looks good on TV" voodoo. All the round will tell is what type of barrel fired...

I only got a piece of brass with my gun. No bullet

If you are worried about polishing your XD here is a little something to keep in mind. Over the course of the 2k I have through mine, it looks like I hand polished my feed ramp and chamber. I first noticed it somewhere around 1k. +1 on the CSI looks good on TV stuff that Cuda brought up. Also, they can't really "trace" a gun based on the round, the striations in the barrel change each time you shoot a round.

The spent shell casing is not for "tracing" a gun. If investigators at a murder scene find the spent casing, they cannot find who owns the weapon by examining the marks on the primer etc. If they locate a suspect with a weapon they THINK is the murder weapon, then they can compare the striker to the primer and maybe even the bullet to the bore to use as evidence in court. The idea behind including one in your new...

Quote: A California Department of Justice survey, using 742 guns used by the California Highway Patrol as a test bed, showed very poor results; even with such a limited database, less than 70% of cases of the same make as the "fingerprint" case yielded the correct gun in the top 15 matches; when a different make of ammunition was used, the success rate dropped to less than 40% link Thats for the cases. I don't know...