Fake ID's Foil Brady Checks - GAO
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azredhawk44
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Well, the FFL's who sold to them in AZ are just plain stupid.
You can't reproduce the watermark on an AZ license with a PC, a color laser printer and a laminator.
The license has no lamination, it is a hard-stock card that has a watermark in the card.
The licenses in AZ have been that way for at least 5 years (I've only been here for 5 years). Any license made the old way with paper inside a laminate (that still has a watermark) will be incredibly old and worn out.
Those FFL's should have their licenses revoked. There are Coyote/Mexican rackets that make really good fake id's, but no idiot with $2000 of computer equipment and software is going to make a good fake AZ id.
A friend of mine tried to reproduce a license using a hard-stock card printer very similar to the DMV's printers (according to ARS 13-2002, forgery is illegal only with intent to defraud and the card was shredded immediately). Without the cardstock that they use, the watermark is distorted even when hi-resolution scanned from an original license with no modifications to any card data. These printers are very expensive, about $2000 each. It could not re-create the watermark.
You can't reproduce the watermark on an AZ license with a PC, a color laser printer and a laminator.
The license has no lamination, it is a hard-stock card that has a watermark in the card.
The licenses in AZ have been that way for at least 5 years (I've only been here for 5 years). Any license made the old way with paper inside a laminate (that still has a watermark) will be incredibly old and worn out.
Those FFL's should have their licenses revoked. There are Coyote/Mexican rackets that make really good fake id's, but no idiot with $2000 of computer equipment and software is going to make a good fake AZ id.
A friend of mine tried to reproduce a license using a hard-stock card printer very similar to the DMV's printers (according to ARS 13-2002, forgery is illegal only with intent to defraud and the card was shredded immediately). Without the cardstock that they use, the watermark is distorted even when hi-resolution scanned from an original license with no modifications to any card data. These printers are very expensive, about $2000 each. It could not re-create the watermark.
There's too much of a "we need a federal ID" feeling to this article/sting.
The feds have been pushing for one for years, and using the "oh my God, they can fake regular licenses and get guns" fear tactic brings them one step closer to a Federal ID as well as registration.
I'm getting a creepy freeling, because of this statement
I'm thinking that an agenda is being pushed here, and by any means that it takes.
Wayne
The feds have been pushing for one for years, and using the "oh my God, they can fake regular licenses and get guns" fear tactic brings them one step closer to a Federal ID as well as registration.
I'm getting a creepy freeling, because of this statement
that it was more than "off the shelf" equipment as well as where they got the stock (materials) that have the watermarks.
I'm thinking that an agenda is being pushed here, and by any means that it takes.
Wayne
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