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There is a guy on here 444 is his name. He says he has done his fingerprinting electronically alot. I assume live scan and what he was talking about is the same thing.
*EDIT nevermind I dont think its the same method.
Hey, I know that guy.
Yeah, I have received a total of 19 tax stamps that were all submitted with that type of fingerprint. Our local PD (Las Vegas Metro) dosn't even do ink fingerprints. I asked them the other day what they would do if someone came in with fingerprint cards and told them that they had to be printed the old fashioned ink way and she said she doesn't know what they would do because as far as she knows they have no way to do that.
For those who have never seen what we are talking about. Instead of pressing your fingertips onto ink, you simply put your fingertips on a piece of glass and a computer scans the print. The fingerprint cards you get back are EXACTLY the same cards that ATF requires. The ONLY difference is that the fingerprints are printed onto the card by a computer. The average person probably wouldn't even know the difference unless they were told there was a difference.
One other difference: because I have no intention to stop buying NFA items, when I get fingerprints done I get several sets of cards. The last time I was there (last week) I got six fingerprint cards. Instead of being printed six seperate times, you get printed once and the computer spits out however many cards it is told to spit out. So, for six cards you are printed once and then the computer prints out six copies.