Community safety?

[Finnwolf]

If its a diverted gun, that is purchased by a license holder and then diverted to an unlicensed person, the register gives Police a much better ability to find those people.

Other than that, it won't and I'm not sure why people think any different.

A quick scuff of a grinder ( mostly) negates registration.

[Longrun]

A quick scuff of a grinder ( mostly) negates registration.

A quick audit of licence holders registered guns will highlight this.

[Finnwolf]

A quick audit of licence holders registered guns will highlight this.

Rest assured criminals will find a way around that.

[Longrun]

I understand well enough. The licenced holder will still be responsible for firearms registered to their licence.

[on2it]

A quick scuff of a grinder ( mostly) negates registration.

That's not entirely true as there are several ways, both chemical and electrical, to recover the markings from the sub-surface crystalline structure. I'm not a forensic metallurgist so don't know but I expect overstamping the ground area with a series of XXX's would make this a more difficult exercise.

[PadLo]

That's not entirely true as there are several ways, both chemical and electrical, to recover the markings from the sub-surface crystalline structure. I'm not a forensic metallurgist so don't know but I expect overstamping the ground area with a series of XXX's would make this a more difficult exercise.

Bruh, they found a dead body in a field in Woodend, left it because forensics were off for the evening, literally left a body in a field, came back the next day and it was gone........because the killer came back and moved it to a new location...

...and you think they are going to forensically match a 223 or 22lr round to a 'deregistered' rifle.....

[No.3]

That's not entirely true as there are several ways, both chemical and electrical, to recover the markings from the sub-surface crystalline structure. I'm not a forensic metallurgist so don't know but I expect overstamping the ground area with a series of XXX's would make this a more difficult exercise.

Not as easy as you'd think, and a grinder generally doesn't piss around when it starts removing metal crystalline or not. Most stampings in firearms aren't deeply upsetting the metal to the point where there is a major structural change because of fatigue purposes.

[kotuku]

That's not entirely true as there are several ways, both chemical and electrical, to recover the markings from the sub-surface crystalline structure. I'm not a forensic metallurgist so don't know but I expect overstamping the ground area with a series of XXX's would make this a more difficult exercise.

what you think our coppers are akin to CSI- theyre going to forensically examine every firearm they recover ?Id sauspect not acheiving ruling masters agendas.