These idiots never heard of fire-lapping, etc.
http://usatoday.com/news/ndssun06.htm
Tracing gun prints readied in Calif.
By Gary Fields, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON - The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms hope to install the first of several computers this year to trace guns and bullets in much the same way individuals are identified and tracked by fingerprints.
Tentative plans are to install the computers in crime labs in California first. Oklahoma and Texas would be the second region to receive the new systems, followed by New York and Connecticut, then Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Officials say they give those areas priority because of the levels of gun violence there and because of past success using computer ballistics examination systems.
The goal is to create a network that links the nation's 230 crime labs and 30,000 law enforcement organizations to millions of computerized images of bullets and cartridge casings.
Scientists have known for decades that every gun leaves markings on bullets and cartridge cases that are as distinctive as fingerprints.
In the early 1990s, FBI and ATF computer systems were developed that allowed comparisons of those "gun prints" with bullets collected from crime scenes.
The new computers, each of which costs about $250,000, will house a new system that combines the FBI's Drugfire system and the ATF's Integrated Ballistics Imaging System. The two agencies had been working for more than a year on finding a way to link their systems. Officials say they decided earlier this year that it would be easier to create the hybrid system.
Under the new system, bullets and cartridge cases are photographed with a digital camera. The images are computerized, and microscopic imperfections are measured. Within minutes, the images can be compared with other bullets and casings in the system and matched with images of bullets and casings recovered in crimes.
In the past, ballistics tests were usually done only after police had a suspect and a weapon in hand. As they assembled evidence for a trial, police would test-fire the gun and compare the bullets they fired with those found at a crime scene or extracted from a victim's body.
So far, about 500,000 ballistics images are in the FBI and ATF databases. Although that is a small percentage of the ammunition from the 220 million firearms in circulation, examiners and police departments have used the limited databases to link at least 5,700 guns to two or more crimes when no other evidence existed.
In addition to fine-tuning the new system, authorities also have a pilot program working with a gun manufacturer, Glock, in which the "gun prints" of the company's new guns are being added to the database.
© Copyright 2000 USA TODAY.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
http://usatoday.com/news/ndssun06.htm
Tracing gun prints readied in Calif.
By Gary Fields, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON - The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms hope to install the first of several computers this year to trace guns and bullets in much the same way individuals are identified and tracked by fingerprints.
Tentative plans are to install the computers in crime labs in California first. Oklahoma and Texas would be the second region to receive the new systems, followed by New York and Connecticut, then Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Officials say they give those areas priority because of the levels of gun violence there and because of past success using computer ballistics examination systems.
The goal is to create a network that links the nation's 230 crime labs and 30,000 law enforcement organizations to millions of computerized images of bullets and cartridge casings.
Scientists have known for decades that every gun leaves markings on bullets and cartridge cases that are as distinctive as fingerprints.
In the early 1990s, FBI and ATF computer systems were developed that allowed comparisons of those "gun prints" with bullets collected from crime scenes.
The new computers, each of which costs about $250,000, will house a new system that combines the FBI's Drugfire system and the ATF's Integrated Ballistics Imaging System. The two agencies had been working for more than a year on finding a way to link their systems. Officials say they decided earlier this year that it would be easier to create the hybrid system.
Under the new system, bullets and cartridge cases are photographed with a digital camera. The images are computerized, and microscopic imperfections are measured. Within minutes, the images can be compared with other bullets and casings in the system and matched with images of bullets and casings recovered in crimes.
In the past, ballistics tests were usually done only after police had a suspect and a weapon in hand. As they assembled evidence for a trial, police would test-fire the gun and compare the bullets they fired with those found at a crime scene or extracted from a victim's body.
So far, about 500,000 ballistics images are in the FBI and ATF databases. Although that is a small percentage of the ammunition from the 220 million firearms in circulation, examiners and police departments have used the limited databases to link at least 5,700 guns to two or more crimes when no other evidence existed.
In addition to fine-tuning the new system, authorities also have a pilot program working with a gun manufacturer, Glock, in which the "gun prints" of the company's new guns are being added to the database.
© Copyright 2000 USA TODAY.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
