Maryland scraps 'fingerprint' database. Epic fail.

[JayB0311]

Found this quite interesting.

Seems the feds knew it wouldn't work, and knew it would be a failure in 2004, yet still kept the program active.

Excellent work elected officials.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bullet-casings-20151107-story.html

 

[JettaRed]

What the heck! I want my casings back! I paid for them in the price of my gun.


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[Half-cocked]

Spent shell casings are as useful in solving shootings, as VIN's are at solving road rage cases.

I'm relieved this moronic program is finally finished, but I'm even more dismayed that the additional, useless infringements of FSA2013 will probably be around as long - or longer - than the stupid spent casing program.

 

[protegeV]

This has been discussed so many times already that I thought the op was referring to actual FINGER printing...

 

[kenpo333]

This has been discussed so many times already that I thought the op was referring to actual FINGER printing...

So did I. Old stuff. Heard that they also rented space for some casings. Any truth do that?

 

[JayB0311]

This has been discussed so many times already that I thought the op was referring to actual FINGER printing...

Sorry. Didn't mean to be misleading.


Just posting an article I just read that came out yesterday.

 

[MigraineMan]

"It's probably the best bill I've had," said Sen. Ed Reilly, a Republican from Anne Arundel County, who sponsored the bill that passed this year. He said prior efforts failed because a key committee chairman would not bring it to a vote.

That chairman, former state Sen. Brian Frosh, a Democrat, is now Maryland's attorney general.

Color me shocked.

"It's fair to look at it after 15 years and see how effective it was," Frosh said. "I don't have a problem abandoning it."

Translation: "It's not my problem any more."

Sanctimonius prick.

 

[protegeV]

Sorry. Didn't mean to be misleading.


Just posting an article I just read that came out yesterday.

Its cool. The writer may have been months late to the party, but we've been discussing it since it passed back in the spring and then went into law a month ago.

 

[platoonDaddy]

Its cool. The writer may have been months late to the party, but we've been discussing it since it passed back in the spring and then went into law a month ago.

AMEN

Wonder what motivated the writer to write the article, are we missing something?

 

[Threeband]

It's a new article and updates a few things.

Frosh is making lemonade.

 

[protegeV]

It's a new article and updates a few things.

Frosh is making lemonade.

Dirty lip hair lemonade

 

[Kman]

This has been discussed so many times already that I thought the op was referring to actual FINGER printing...

Same here. If not for being fingerprinted like a common pos criminal, I could talk myself into the punitive HQL.

 

[Matlack]

Did someone say LEMONADE????


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Just kidding.

 

[Racer Doug14]

Didn't this die on Oct.1? Wbal had a report on this today too and fox45 had a story last week also. The Fox story was quite disappointing. They spun it as if it would still be available to law enforcement to use.

 

[Jim12]

Beating the drums?

"Don't just stand there, do something."

 

[Dave Greenberg]

Found this quite interesting.

Seems the feds knew it wouldn't work, and knew it would be a failure in 2004, yet still kept the program active.

Excellent work elected officials.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bullet-casings-20151107-story.html

And yet they proceed to require you to pay 15 bucks for not having a spent casing.

 

[remodeler1]

What a waste of tax payers money

 

[ted76]

It was a joke, they got the shell casings from 1 handgun I have bought since 2000, since I the other 14 were all used and made before 2000. This was a total waste of our taxpayer money and an effort to cut down on the types of handguns that could sold in Maryland.

 

[Jim12]

It was a joke, they got the shell casings from 1 handgun I have bought since 2000, since I the other 14 were all used and made before 2000. This was a total waste of our taxpayer money and an effort to cut down on the types of handguns that could sold in Maryland.

Which is exactly what it did, until substituted by a new, improved way to cut down on the types and numbers of handguns that would be sold in Maryland.

With the new useless impediment in place, the old one wasn't needed anymore. They did keep it another year though, just to be sure.

If there were litigation and the MGA members behind this were deposed, and if they told the truth, I have no doubt that there were many, many conversations among themselves in private that would expose the ulterior motives behind these laws.

 

[dblas]

So did I. Old stuff. Heard that they also rented space for some casings. Any truth do that?

Negative ghostwriter, they are all stored in boxes in the fallout shelter under the MSP Headquarters.