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Laser-Etched Bullets, Blockchain Tech Part of Washington Gun Crime Initiative

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday February 10 2016, @06:43AM   
from the reloading-our-ammo dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A group in Washington is promoting an initiative to reduce gun crime by using laser-etched bullets to track shooters. According to their website, the data will only be used for legitimate investigations (no datamining) and secured with "recursive verification" features (sounds like a blockchain). Washington state already requires ammunition purchasers to produce valid ID when making purchases. Googling reveals that previous efforts by state legislatures to enact similar legislation have been torpedoed by the gun lobby. Initiatives are not subject to lobbying, so it should be interesting to see how the opposition tackles this campaign.

http://dosomethingwa.org
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-ammunition-idUSBRE90J02K20130120
http://igg.me/at/dosomethingwa

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• Re:laser-etched bullets to track shooters Re:laser-etched bullets to track shooters (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday February 10 2016, @04:49PM

  by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Wednesday February 10 2016, @04:49PM (#302240) Journal

  For the same reason people think fingerprint locks are futuristic sci fi, the world of tomorrow, today, despite how easy they are to disable. iow, magical thinking.

  At least existing forensics of rifling patterns requires some detective work to find the weapon used.

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• Re:laser-etched bullets to track shooters (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @12:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @12:12AM (#303021)

  that whole rifling pattern stuff.
  
  is pure tv grade csi bullcrap.

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