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Showing Original Post only (View all)Maryland is stopping a good program that identifies guns used in crimes [View all]
This sucks balls I was hoping it or something similar would be law here in California soon. I guess the gunnuts will just say look Maryland stopped using it so why would we need it?
I don't know why anyone would't want to help solve gun crimes it just makes sense doesn't it?
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Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The idea was to build a database of "ballistic fingerprints" to help solve future crimes.http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bullet-casings-20151107-story.html
But the system plagued by technological problems never solved a single case. Now the hundreds of thousands of accumulated casings could be sold for scrap.
"Obviously, I'm disappointed," said former Gov. Parris N. Glendening, a Democrat whose administration pushed for the database to fulfill a campaign promise. "It's a little unfortunate, in that logic and common sense suggest that it would be a good crime-fighting tool."
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Union Label
Nov 2015
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True sounds like a dud. Maryland can use the money for other successful programs that work.
yeoman6987
Nov 2015
#7
Well, union, the "snipped" portion in your OP rather explains why it was cancelled...
Eleanors38
Nov 2015
#37
from the article, it sounds like for the MD system they were not unique and got 100s of matches
Amishman
Nov 2015
#42
That was a lightweight solution compared what lies for gun nuts down the road.
onehandle
Nov 2015
#4
"Next time, it'll be a five BILLION dollar program that won't solve any crimes!"
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#21
Actually, they *don't* wonder- they ignore any emprical evidence that disagrees with their dream
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#24
NY Scrapped their program as well. (COBIS solved one case, and cost $44,000,000.)
X_Digger
Nov 2015
#10