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When someone is stabbed, would you go find out everybody who has kitchen knives who lives within a two-mile radius? You'd also be excluding everybody who illeg

• nis0s 10mo ago
  It’s a little different for guns, they’re more tightly controlled and there’s often paper trail of their purchase and licensing of owners, so your example doesn’t apply. I think there’s also the issue that you’re more likely to be murdered by someone you know than a random person. At the very least, matching bullet marks from shots fired from his associates guns to any casings found at the scene is just due diligence.
  • defrost 10mo ago
    The reality of guns in the US is that a gun linked to a crime is likely to be part of a cohort of guns with a "short life to crime" having bounced through obfuscating straw purchases. The most rapidly increasing (although still small in absolute numbers) class of gun associated with crime today are the 3D-printed variations: Thousands of guns are found at crime scenes. What do they tell us? * https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5641154/crime-guns-database-everytown-report https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5641154/crime-guns-data... So, yes, if this a crime of passion, a dispute between aquaintainces that escalated badly then there's a good chance the gun used has a history of ownership and registration. If this is a crime related to home invasion gone badly then it's more likely to be a gun that fell off the radar some time past.