Another Stuipid proposal to stop gun violence

[tommyg]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/17/ ... -all-guns/

Gee all a crook has to do is remove the GPS chip then the gun can't be tracked
Have it done at Felonious gun works... Will do the Job for 5 hits of crack

[cheezit]

officer it fell off the end of the barrel and got shot.. see the bullet hole in it right here

[K.Mooneyham]

I read that THIS is the reason that the original BATFE operation to track guns to the cartels during the Bush administration was quickly abandoned. Because they DID put chips on/in the firearms, and tried to track them down. The bad guys reportedly found the chips pretty quickly and disabled/removed them. Luckily, it was a very small number of firearms and the chips were active long enough that the BGs were caught and the weapons were retrieved. However, because of this, the idea was shelved.

[baldeagle]

You don't stop violence by locating guns. You stop it by locating felons.

Morons.

[A-R]

It is extremely important that we look past this privacy issue, at this point, and understand how important it is for us to address the issue of safety.

"Those who give up essential liberty ..."

[JJVP]

I read that THIS is the reason that the original BATFE operation to track guns to the cartels during the Bush administration was quickly abandoned. Because they DID put chips on/in the firearms, and tried to track them down. The bad guys reportedly found the chips pretty quickly and disabled/removed them. Luckily, it was a very small number of firearms and the chips were active long enough that the BGs were caught and the weapons were retrieved. However, because of this, the idea was shelved.

It was worse than that. The batteries that ran the GPS chips ran out after a few days.

[tommyg]

GEEEEEEEE all a crook has to do is put the stolen gun in a concrete
box for a week and they are home free.

[dac1842]

Want to know how to complete screw something up? Make it a project of a government agency.