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Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint"
database after 15 failed years

By Erin Cox. November 7th, 2015


Millions of dollars later, Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the "fingerprints" of thousands of handguns was a failure.

Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The idea was to build a database of "ballistic fingerprints" to help solve future crimes.

But the system -- plagued by technological problems -- never solved a single case. Now the hundreds of thousands of accumulated casings could be sold for scrap.

"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 suggested that it would be a good crime-fighting tool." ....... --->

Another anti-gun idea that failed miserably, at huge tax payer expense .... as if it was ever going to succeed anyways. "The database "was a waste," said Frank Sloane, owner of Pasadena Gun & Pawn in Anne Arundel County."

"You don't have to be Jewish to fight by our side."

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