Dirty hands kill more people (80K/yr) than guns (FWD)

[Robert Hettinga]

At 5:14 pm -0400 on 6/22/97, Bill Stewart wrote:


> Also, there's an obvious extension to gun registration,
> which is the requirement to provide several bullets shot
> with each of your guns, so they can do ballistics checks later.

It's my understanding that this is half next to useless because all you
have to do is go out and fire a few thousand (hundred?) rounds and the
ballistics change...

Since the first thing you should do after you get a gun is fire a few
thousand rounds through it, anyway, no problem, right?

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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