MORE THOUGHTS ON “BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING,” from Tabula Rasa. Doug Turnbull, meanwhile, starts out more positive, but then sees some issues, while openly admitting that maybe it’ll lead to gun registration, but he’s all in favor of gun registration anyway. This is more honest than the Mercury News, — which, as Tabula Rasa points out, claims that ballistic fingerprinting won’t lead to gun registration but notes that gun registration is a fine thing and “long overdue.”

However, Turnbull’s reference to “paranoid fantasies of imminent tyranny starting with national gun seizures,” and his claim that “a national gun registry will be no more of an invasion of privacy than registering your car, which is already required,” are out of place. In fact, gun registration has consistently led to confiscation; car registration has not. It’s not “paranoid” to fear real dangers.

I don’t think that the Second Amendment bars registration. But only an idiot would fail to notice this pattern, and I think that “ballistic fingerprinting” is, in fact, being pushed as a backdoor way of getting gun registration, by people who would favor confiscation if they thought they had the votes. I recommend this article for some concrete examples.

UPDATE: Suman Palit is already worried by what the FBI is doing in Maryland.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s more, from Juan Gato.

ONE MORE: Tabula Rasa responds to my Second Amendment comments above.