NanoVia assists in developing ballistic ID tag legislation

NanoVia, LP has announced that it has agreed to assist the State of California in writing its state ballistic identification legislation. NanoVia's patented ballistic tagging technology, NanoTagTM, is slated to be a key component.A number of States and Departments of Justice have expressed an immediate and enthusiastic interest in evaluating the technology, as have several federal agencies. The California Department for Justice has entered into an evaluation program with NanoVia to optimize and test various code configurations and placement of embossing surfaces within various firearms for forensic value, repeatability and to establish guidelines for implementation.Within a properly outfitted firearm, NanoVia's micro-embossing technology claims to impart a unique, indelible, and microscopic code on the bullet and/or shell casing. The technology would be integrated as an alternative to the ballistic fingerprinting method currently under such hot debate. NanoVia's NanoTagTM Ballistic ID TagTM does not require national registration of new firearms or a cross-jurisdictional database of ballistic fingerprint images of those new firearms. Simply put, the NanoTag Ballistic ID TagTM replaces the ambiguous scratch and ding imaging and analysis, with a proof-positive ID technology.Source: PCBnewsline