KRW Wrote:I'd love to see it back, but the problem comes when they start putting crimes together that used the same gun. It's better for Jack to switch pistols every once in awhile. If he ever gets busted, it'll be bad enough without them linking him to most of his fix-its. For the same reason, he can't keep it around for nostalgia either.
Because of the use of "tool mark" evidence to link bullets (rifling) and cases (primer and extractor marks) to firearms, having an unusual weapon can either be a blessing or a curse. If the weapon is recovered, then it's definitely the latter! If an unusual weapon with
your fingerprints on it is recovered, and the toolmarks match the firing pin to the primer, or the extractor to the case rim, or the rifling to the bullet (recovered in the corpse), AND you happen to have no identity on file, AND you are being prosecuted in NYC, as gunophobic a city as there is, well....
I could probably still get you off, but it would be tough.