Posted on 11/08/2015 6:05:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
With a bill, retroactive to show an ending date of October 1, the state of Maryland is ending its program to take ballistic fingerprints of firearms through shell casings after 15 years, $5 million spent, and no crimes solved.
When passed by Maryland lawmakers and signed into law by Governor Parris N. Glendening (D) in 2000, ballistic fingerprinting was sold to Maryland residents as a way for police to literally use discarded crime scene shell casings to find the gun that had fired them and, thereby, the person who possessed the gun at the time of crime. To accomplish this, Maryland began a process of requiring one spent casing from every new handgun sold in the state to be sent to the Maryland State Police. The theory was that markings on that round would be used to identify the gun should a spent casing with similar markings be found at a crime scene.
It is estimated that Maryland has approximately 300,000 such casings in an underground bunker waiting to be matched with a shell casing from a crime scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Solving crimes was never the intent of this “law”.
Oh, wait....
What useless relatives of the MD solons got hired?
Well then, you need to spend $15M for it to work.
In the context of this article, there is no such thing as a “shell casing.”
Duplicate thread, duplicate post:Liberals=fools on parade.
Duplicate thread, duplicate post:Liberals=fools on parade.
Pick up some empty casings at the range, sprinkle them around the crime scene, ergo, reasonable doubt.
I searched for the exact title.
I can’t do anything about it if somebody posts it under their own title or if the source changes the title.
I’ve got the ones sent with my 1911, way back when. Maybe I’ll drop ‘em in the mail.
No harm, no foul. Just thought you would have known about the previous post. My mistake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk0__RN8Mm8
Great tune.
“Pick up some empty casings at the range, sprinkle them around the crime scene, ergo, reasonable doubt.”
Easier than a “throwdown” gun!
Well if those bullets had chips in them. Or gavin newsome had implemented background checks for buying ammo in Cali..... You know the drill.
Well, at least they had the honesty to admit it was a failure, and to get rid of it. Sort of surprising for a “deep blue” state
Our country is a wreck. 5 mill here, 46 mill for some stupid gas station, 2 billion for a blimp that is totally destroyed. Yep our money at work. And yet these idiots can’t find a raise for Social Security. Lord we are a finished nation. (And no I don’t collect SS and probably never will but I still think it’s BS that inflation didn’t happen this year.......)
For some REAL FUN, pick up the casings from the local police qualification range.
There is no magic bullet here (joke joke joke)
Damn you, law-abiding mofos!
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