The Department of Justice’s Statement of Interest informs the Court that the United States has serious concerns about the proliferation of untraceable firearms easily assembled from firearm parts kits and unfinished frames and receivers. [More]
Well, yeah. If we don’t know about them, how are we expected to confiscate them?
[Via Jess]
Funny thing is, I’ve read a number of stories of late where a single firearm has been forensically connected to sometimes large numbers of different shootings (above 150 in one case) but the gun culd not be located, nor did they know who the supposed owner is. The guns were absolutely UNTRACEABLE despite the FACT they had factory placed serial numbers, unmodified, on the guns themselves. HOW could this be? Simple…. the gun was “floating about out there” and as it “wandered about” was used in multiple crimes, absolutely the same one, but without knowing WHICH one it was it was untraceable. Even if they DID know the serial number they still could not have located it. Why? Because it had originally been stolen, thus breaking the “chain of custody”
Let’s get real here: WHAT is the practical difference between a marked gun they cannot trace and an UNmarked gun they cannot trace? Only one. Once finallly recovered and identified as The Gun, they can learn from whom it was stolen four years ago, for the numbered one, and NOT learn who made it or had it stolen from them six months ago, for the unmarked one. BOTH are “untraceable”.
This is a distinction without a difference. And they know it. More gun control takling points, that is all.