http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/20/gun-control-debate_n_2514918.html



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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) - In tracking down illegal weapons, the smoking gun may not be a gun at all.

Bullets are one thing Sacramento Police Detective Greg Halstead can count on to root out weapons that otherwise would be impossible to find. They are also largely missing from the gun control debate in Washington.

Since 2008, California's capital has required ammunition dealers to take names and thumbprints of bullet buyers. They send the information electronically to police computers, which compare the names to an FBI criminal database.

Halstead begins his day looking at a list of buyers, picking out the ones who aren't supposed to own ammunition - or guns. The thumbprint left by each prohibited buyer is nearly perfect evidence of crime.

"The ammunition case is a slam-dunk solid," said Halstead, who regularly turns up illegal guns at homes he otherwise would have no reason to search. Some 154 felony convictions and 92 misdemeanor convictions have resulted so far.

Someone needs to DDOS HuffPo. Sick of their shit.

Well hell, if we want to make this poor man's job easier, how about we go ahead and just get rid of the rest of that pesky 4th amendment?  Then nothing will stand in the way of his convictions

Why must *I* be treated as a criminal first for the benefit of law enforcement?  What the hell happened to innocent until proven guilty?

For the entire state of CA those statistics can't even begin to justify the cost of doing that.

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Don't drug cartels already pay folks without records to buy guns legally and hand them over?
What's to keep the same practice from happening with ammunition?

Must just be a local regulation (violation of the FOPA at that).
No such requirement where I live (So Cal).

NI before someone agrees that this is a reasonable concession.