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I think part of the fetish for ballistic databases is that it is another venue for scoring political points over gun owners and their political allies. It also seems to neatly tie-in with the collectivists' fantasies of firearm registration and confiscation.

For the reasons Frankie and others have explained, ballistic "fingerprints" cannot and will not, by themselves, solve crimes. I suspect much of the relationship between ballistic fingerprinting and criminal conviction is the suspect is identified/found separate from the firearm, but an "expert witness" comes along later to testify (testi-lie?) that a particular casing or bullet came from a particular gun, which is somehow linked to the suspect. I see a lot of room for sloppiness there.