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Maryland’s long-overdue goodbye to ballistic fingerprinting
The Washington Post ^ | November 13, 2015 | John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on 11/14/2015 7:06:53 AM PST by rogerantone1

Ballistic fingerprinting was all the rage 15 years ago. Maryland led the way, setting up a computer database on new guns and the markings they made on bullets. New York soon followed. The days of criminal gun use were supposedly numbered.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; maryland

1 posted on 11/14/2015 7:06:53 AM PST by rogerantone1
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Money quote from the article:

The response from gun-control advocates: Fifteen years and $5 million weren't enough. They simply need more time because the science is valid. They claim that, on average, most guns used in crimes were bought nearly 15 years prior.

But even if that were accurate, it wouldn't explain why the systems in Maryland and New York haven't solved one crime.


2 posted on 11/14/2015 7:14:47 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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So that’s why all my agencies Glocks came with 3 spent casings in an envelope with the serial # printed on the outside?. Good, now I can tell My arsenal administrator he can throw the damn things out!

CC


3 posted on 11/14/2015 7:15:37 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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Not a single case solved after 15 years? That’s because law abiding people who purchase their guns rather than stealing them aren’t the ones committing crimes.


4 posted on 11/14/2015 7:16:51 AM PST by SunTzuWu
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5 posted on 11/14/2015 7:24:31 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SunTzuWu

The subject matter experts all predicted this result, but the liberal administrators overrulled them, because they wanted to believe the disarmists.

No matter how many times the disarmists are found to be wrong, lying, or using bad data in politicized “studies”, the media supports them because they *want* to believe them, or at least convince voters to believe them.


6 posted on 11/14/2015 8:34:26 AM PST by marktwain
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Those same dollars could have gone into expanded crime lab capacity.


7 posted on 11/14/2015 8:39:39 AM PST by Rockpile
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