[Southack]

To paraphrase Will Smith in I, Robot...

Somehow "I told you so" just doesn't suffice.

[theDentist]

A law requiring Maryland State Police to collect ballistics information from each handgun sold in the state should be repealed because the expensive system is flawed and has not helped a criminal investigation since it was adopted in 2000, a state police report has concluded.

BWAAAAHAAAHAHAhahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!

[MediaMole]

When a bullet is fired, it is scratched with unique markings, or "fingerprints," as it passes through the gun's barrel. The law requires gun manufacturers to test-fire handguns and send a spent shell casing from each gun sold in Maryland to the state police.

Well, there's the problem.

[ko_kyi]

The ache in my rear is that the dolts who advocated this in 2000 will likely never be held accountable for the millions of taxpayer dollars pi$$ed away on this stupid idea.

[DocH]

Well NO-SHIITE, you liberal, panty-waste, anti-gun, Peoples Republic of Maryland liberals! Yet ANOTHER waste of taxpayers dollars to support a flawed liberal anti-gun boondoggle. As usual, nothing but FEEL-GOOD legislation and "programs" from them. Not as bad as the BILLION dollar (Canadian) WASTE that is Canadian gun control, but bad enough, ESPECIALLY here, in the "land of the FREE".

[rellimpank]

--I eagerly await a Sixty Minutes expose' on this, which could perhaps be combined with one on the non-effectiveness of the assault weapons ban--

[Yo-Yo]

Hmm, I wonder if the unique 'scratches and marks' on the first bullet fired from a new firearm match the ones on the 100th bullet, or 1,000th bullet fired?

</sarcasm>

[nightdriver]

"When a bullet is fired, it is scratched with unique markings, or "fingerprints," as it passes through the gun's barrel. The law requires gun manufacturers to test-fire handguns and send a spent shell casing from each gun sold in Maryland to the state police."

So what do they catalog, the bullet or the shell casing?

[PeterFinn]

While we're all getting a good chuckle at their foolishness these people are going to use this as an argument for banning guns altogether.

Because if you can't "properly" regulate them then you'll HAVE to ban them.

BTW - it's not as bad as one-time Sacramento City Councilmember Deborah Ortiz' (now a State Senator) brilliant idea to require the police department to develop technology to, no kidding, track the ballistic characteristics of *shotguns*. She pulled the idea after someone told her she was a laughing stock in certain circles at the SPD.