[Zarro]

"Obviously, I'm incompetent disappointed," former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening, whose administration pushed for the database, told the Baltimore Sun.

Needed a little editorial correction.

[Bogey78O]

Any prosecutions for failure to comply?

[Yo-Yo]

Is Maryland the last holdout on this experiment? Does this mean no more little envelope with a test fire casing when you buy a new firearm?

The program was doomed to failure anyway, because any unique markings on a spent shell casing when the gun is new won't match with the markings left after the gun has been fired 1,000 times.

Matching shell casings to a particular firearm only works when the test casing and the crime scene recovered casing are fired close to each other.

To a lesser extent, ditto with bullet markings.

[thackney]

"It's a little unfortunate, in that logic and common sense suggest that it would be a good crime-fighting tool is so lacking in politicians."

[Carry_Okie]

"It's a little unfortunate, in that logic and common sense suggest that it would be a good crime-fighting tool."

Liberals often apply "logic and common sense" to false information with ubiquitous results that should have taught them the limits of the approach were they either logical or if they possessed common sense.

[umgud]

Does MD have mandatory background checks? Registration? If so, how many crimes have they cracked? Good time to dump those programs too.

[William Tell]

Five million dollars may have been the direct cost to Maryland, but other costs were incurred by dealers and manufacturers.

I know a guy (IKAG) who purchased several firearms since this nonsense began. Each came with a fired casing in a small coin envelope with identifying information. The extra cost of supplying this was no doubt included in the purchase price of the firearm.

The cost of this nonsense to those manufacturers, passed on to consumers, was no doubt several more millions. There is no price so high that anti-gunners are not willing to have gun owners pay for their fantasies.

These manufacturers should sue the state of Maryland for the costs of having had their Second Amendment right to manufacture arms infringed.

[jimfree]

Remembering when that was passed. Haven’t thought about it since. If there had been success stories we would have never stopped hearing about it.

[jacknhoo]

We all know any program like that running for 15 years cost a lot more then $5M.

[nomad]

Did this retread not realize that with most semi-auto hand guns the barrel and slide are routinely removed during a field stripping and cleaning? So of course a different barrel and slide could never be easily substituted.

[JoeFromSidney]

That collection of reloadable brass is probably worth a lot of money. But the idiots will probably sell it for scrap rather than sell it to the reloading market.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!