How to Avoid `Ballistics Fingerprinting'
by Matt Maggio
October 24, 2002
After about the first three days of the Washington "snipers," the antigun lobby tried - rather unsuccessfully - to exploit it to get congressional support to require one of their longtime agendas: "ballistic fingerprinting" of all guns. So far, no politicians outside of longtime antigun extremists, ones in the most-solidly antigun districts, and ones in trouble in the polls desperate for a "Hail Mary pass" publicly support the idea - but the surest way to stop it is by giving every congressman in Red Nation and ones from non-urban parts of Blue Nation a politically-safe response to any lobbyist clamoring for it: It won't work.
"Ballistic fingerprinting" - to even theoretically work - would require what are the antigun lobby's real goals: registering all of the 250 million-odd guns Americans now own, banning private sales or gifts of guns, and banning gun shows. And that - rather than arresting any future "sniper" - is the antigun lobby's only real goal driving its renewed clamor for "ballistic fingerprinting"; after all, who thinks that anyone bent on multiple murder with his "ballistically fingerprinted" gun would calmly wait home to be arrested - rather than just embark on a cross-country murder spree like the gay guy who killed fashion designer Versace after several other gays in a coast-to-coast killing spree did, making arresting him even harder as he hourly moved into new turf where the police weren't looking for him?
"Ballistic fingerprinting" won't solve even ordinary crimes, as the "fingerprint" can easily be obliterated - but the antigun lobby doesn't mind. All it wants is its real goals - no private sales, no shows, and registration. So the best way to make it solidly safe for any congressman to oppose "ballistic fingerprinting" is on the ground that it simply won't work - and the best way to achieve that is to make widely known how easy it will be to "unfingerprint" a gun. And the instructions for doing it with common gun-cleaning tools in your kitchen in 20 minutes are below; you can send it to your congressman as proof of the unfeasibility of "fingerprinting" guns when you write him to oppose it.
All you really need are two stainless-steel brushes; one a barrel brush for the caliber of your gun, another a two-ended toothbrush.
Start by unloading the gun.
Field-strip it if possible.
Then - from the breech if possible - use the barrel brush to clean the barrel; doing this with a stainless-steel brush instead of a bronze one will drastically alter the striations.
Next, use the small end of the steel-bristled toothbrush to scour the inside of the chamber - changing the striations on ejected brass.
Next, use the small end of the steel-bristled toothbrush to scour the extractor - on both its front and back sides - to mess up extractor marks on ejected brass.
Next, scrub the bolt's front (or breech face if a handgun) that ammo rests on when fired with the stainless-steel toothbrush.
Finally, scour the firing pin's tip if you can using the steel-bristled toothbrush in order to mess up firing-pin indentations in ejected brass; get a friend who's a gun nerd if necessary to get you access to the firing pin's tip.
You can now lube and reassemble your gun. While barrel cleaning with a steel brush can degrade accuracy, it's unlikely to matter at hunting or self-defense ranges - and you will only do it once, anyhow.
It is best if you do this procedure before sight-in in order to avoid having to repeat sight-in.
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