W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 17 -- Washington, D.C., is a town on the verge of a nervous breakdown, harried citizens deliberating the life-and-death merits of food shopping, buying gas and ferrying the ...

As the horror of last fall’s sniper shootings continues to haunt citizens across New England and the East Coast, the tragic killings have brought new attention to a state legislative bill that experts ...

Sen. Charles E. Schumer called on President Bush to implement a national program to require that ballistic fingerprinting data be kept on firearms, during a news conference at the Buffalo Police ...

The rash of sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area has, not surprisingly, renewed a debate over whether the government should set up a nationwide database of ballistic fingerprints to track ...

fingerprinting,” a system that could make firearm crimes easier to solve. Here’s how it works: Every gun barrel produces unique patterns on the bullets it fires, due to variations in manufacturing ...

For more than 70 years, ballistic evidence has helped police and prosecutors find firearms used in crimes. Yet despite its widespread acceptance as a law enforcement tool, the forensic science ...

The Dec. 22 Register editorial arguing for so called "fingerprinting " of firearms is a complete fraud. First of all, guns do not have fingerprints in the same sense as people. Our fingerprints start ...

IN THE ANNALS of rank opportunism, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Atherton, deserves a special place. All hail her efforts to exploit the Beltway-sniper killings by pushing a bad "ballistic fingerprinting" bill.