Comments on: So, how’s that gonna work?

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:38:03 +0000

“In a new tactic against urban crime, the mayors of several East Coast cities, including New York, plan to launch a database that will allow them to share information on known gun offenders.”

To those clowns anyone who owns a firearm is a “gun offender”.

By: Gunstar1

Gunstar1 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:58:49 +0000

And how exactly are they going to get BATF data? I seem to recall that�s not exactly legal.

I have a feeling this is to get around that BAFTE law. If the locals request a trace of a gun, they get the info on who the dealer of that firearm is.

You get enough big cities into the mix and you have your own little ATF trace database. No need to request the full list of ATF trace data (that is now illegal for the ATF to give out) if you kept a record of all the individual traces you performed.

Tada, you now have a list of firearms traced to dealers. No law violated since the list was created for law enforcement purposes.

By: John of Argghhh!

John of Argghhh! — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:44:18 +0000

I’m still scratching my head to figure out how this will hamper illegal gun dealers.

Strikes me, if they’re illegal gun dealers, they aren’t much concerned with… but maybe I just don’t get it.

By: Curtis Lowe

Curtis Lowe — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:50:57 +0000

Are they going to ban them from living in certain areas – like sex offenders? No living near gun stores, shooting ranges or public lands?

By: _Jon

_Jon — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:48:00 +0000

“Launch later this year” – How long does it take to “launch” a database?

For example, if I sent you, Uncle, an e-mail asking;
“Hey could you create an Access database that contained 14 fields, each indexed and keyed, most of which would be blobs and search-able?”
and your response was that it would take anything more than 2 hours, I would consider you incompetent.

Heck, Access even has a wizard that will walk you through it. Jeeze these people *are* incompetent…