Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint" database after 15 failed years

[RugersGR8]

Another hairbrained/jackwagon lib dem anti-gun agenda scheme is circling the drain and on it's way out. Cost: $5 million to the state of Maryland. If anybody reloads, the state of Maryland has about 300,000 rounds of brass they MIGHT WANT TO SELL.


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bullet-casings-20151107-story.html
Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint" database after 15 failed years
Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun
Updated November 7, 2015

 

[dennishoddy]

AWWW, isn't that a shame. Wonder how many folks told those "I need to pass some meaningful legislation" legislators that it wouldn't work from the git go?

 

[OKCHunter]

ROFLMAO - The liberal mindset never ceases to amuse me.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

I think they should be required to track down and return every piece of brass back to it's registered owner. They should have the capability. IF the brass came from a gun used in a crime, that's what they were planning to do anyway.

 

[Rod Snell]

"If there was any evidence whatsoever — any evidence — that this was helpful in solving crimes, we wouldn't have touched it," Zirkin said. "The police came in and said it was useless. No one contradicted that."

"Obviously, I'm disappointed," said former Gov. Parris N. Glendening, a Democrat whose administration pushed for the database to fulfill a campaign promise. "It's a little unfortunate, in that logic and common sense suggest that it would be a good crime-fighting tool."

So much for the merits of "common sense" gun laws.......

What the article does not say is that the Maryland state police told the legislature a decade ago that the program was useless and asked to use the money for more officers on patrol, but the legislature refused and kept the useless law "to send a message to gun owners."
Maryland still has a stupid law that if stopped while TRANSPORTING A LEGALLY OWNED GUN, you have to prove you are going to a "legally authorized destination."

 

[chuter]

That's funny, now if the MSM will just pick up the story.................

 

[dennishoddy]

That's funny, now if the MSM will just pick up the story.................

Ain't gonna happen.

 

[OKNewshawk]

I think they should be required to track down and return every piece of brass back to it's registered owner. They should have the capability. IF the brass came from a gun used in a crime, that's what they were planning to do anyway.

That's the problem... they didn't!

 

[Subsonic]

Probably the only case that it helped solve/confirm was the Waleetka homicides of Taylor Placker and Skyla Whitaker.