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what Peter said.”
“I collect guns myself,” the sheriff said, “and it’s not about that. It is about stopping criminals from getting firearms. If we let one or two get by and something happens then we have egg on our face.”
Mr. Luke said that if the few who have records can be weeded out by the check then it’s worth doing. He said the prints are, only used for the purpose of the check.
Wade Tetrow, of Loudoun County, disagreed with that statement.
Mr. Tetrow said he had followed the issue through Northern Virginia and felt he should come to speak here. He said Fairfax and Prince William have voted it down and he believes Loudoun will do the same.
He said the problem comes with what they do with the fingerprints after they leave the county. They go from county to state to federal. The Federal Bureau of Investigation gets them because they have the national data base to check them out. But, instead of deleting them once the check is done and deemed okay, they
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