Yeah, because the feds waste their time going after the legal, law-abiding owners of all these scary-looking weapons instead of focusing on an actual investigation. BTW, Moose, in each instance the DC snipers fired ONE shot - so their spree could have been done just as effectively with an old bolt-action hunting rifle. Rapid-fire had nothing to do with it. Your incompetence, however, had much to do with the final death toll, because you couldn't even figure out to query your own database.
Another bill would require owners to notify authorities if they lose a gun. Chief Moose said police waste valuable time tracking down the owner of the gun used in a crime, only to be told it was lost or stolen.
This one might have some merit.
The third bill would expand Maryland's ballistics fingerprinting system to include long rifles. Maryland currently only "fingerprints" handguns by recording a bullet fired from the gun into a state database.
Yeah, the ATF ballistics database for crime-scene bullets was so effective in connecting the shootings in Alabama, Louisiana and Arizona to the DC snipers. Whoops, it wasn't. So why are you promoting this, Moosebreath?
Why not take this to the next logical level, where it will surely go someday?
... their spree could have been done just as effectively with an old muzzle-loading rifle!