1. STILL WAITING FOR GUN FINGERPRINTING.
- Author
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Shannon, Elaine and Waller, Douglas
- Subjects
FORENSIC ballistics ,IDENTIFICATION of firearms ,CRIMINAL snipers ,BALLISTICS ,BULLET identification ,SNIPERS ,FORENSIC sciences ,GUN laws ,UNITED States legislators - Abstract
Focuses on Ohio Republican Senator Mike DeWine, who is pushing for ballistic fingerprinting, a forensic technique the National Rifle Association (NRA) strongly opposes. Hunt for a sniper in Ohio; comments of DeWine, who is co-sponsoring a bill with Wisconsin Democratic Senator Herb Kohl to require gun manufacturers to keep a fingerprint signature on file for police; Advantages of such a database; Why the NRA is against the database.
- Published
- 2003