Fox 45 Shell casing report
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well that "shoots" the barrels behind the barracks story all to hell.
More feel good laws that waste money and accomplish nothing.
More feel good laws that waste money and accomplish nothing.
Based on the premise that legally purchased handguns would be used in violent crimes, this program certainly delivered what legal gun owners knew all along... it was a waste of time and money. Collecting spent casings on the off chance that one of them might match one found at a crime scene seems like looking for a needle in a thousand piles of straw.
The stupid, it hurts.
The stupid, it hurts.
vgplayer
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If you aren't entirely focused and aren't in the know I could see people reading the article and watching the video and think that these are cases are evidence from unsolved crimes. Just the way the article is written it seems to imply that.
Until the Government concedes that there is some evil in the world that is beyond their power to control, we will continue to have "common sense" measures that are not fully thought through.
Just for my edification; casing tool marks have long been used to match a firearm to a shell casing. Why did the equipment to create the database"never work"? Any idea why the database was never created?
Just for my edification; casing tool marks have long been used to match a firearm to a shell casing. Why did the equipment to create the database"never work"? Any idea why the database was never created?
Maybe because at ~5min/case it would take 12 man/years to scan all.
That doesn't count all the miscellany to go along with it such as physically indexing the cases so they can be found again, maintaining the equipment, etc.
- Feb 19, 2013
- 18,766
That number is what interested immediately. How many years they been collecting? Now conservatively that comes to 100K individual gun purchasers, when you factor in all the guys that buy 10 or more. Think even husband and wife each buying. I really contend that Maryland is not an armed society other than the illegal guns in the hood and FUDDS outside the DC area counties.
- Jan 30, 2013
- 34,121
"Evidence"?
"Evidence" of what, other than the Maryland legislature's stupidity and willingness to waste money, and "evidence" of 300,000 LEGAL firearm purchases, while the illegal ones are on Baltimore's streets?
"Evidence" that the overwhelming majority of handgun purchasers are law abiding citizens.
"Evidence" in the sense implied by FOX 45 requires a crime. The problem here is that there's no crime, therefore those 300,000 shell casings aren't "evidence."
The MSP spokesmen who said that the Maryland legislature thought the program should end was extremely misleading, too. They fought it tooth and nail for years, until Hogan was elected and wanted it, and fiscal responsibility demanded an end to it.
Finally, the story said the brass might be destroyed. Leave it to Maryland to trash something that has economic value when it needs the money that could be raised from its sale.
Make a monument to the 2A out of it, and place it in Lawyer's Mall so that every Maryland senator and representative is reminded of this past boondoggle each and every time they walk from their offices to the Statehouse to vote.
"Evidence" of what, other than the Maryland legislature's stupidity and willingness to waste money, and "evidence" of 300,000 LEGAL firearm purchases, while the illegal ones are on Baltimore's streets?
"Evidence" that the overwhelming majority of handgun purchasers are law abiding citizens.
"Evidence" in the sense implied by FOX 45 requires a crime. The problem here is that there's no crime, therefore those 300,000 shell casings aren't "evidence."
The MSP spokesmen who said that the Maryland legislature thought the program should end was extremely misleading, too. They fought it tooth and nail for years, until Hogan was elected and wanted it, and fiscal responsibility demanded an end to it.
Finally, the story said the brass might be destroyed. Leave it to Maryland to trash something that has economic value when it needs the money that could be raised from its sale.
Make a monument to the 2A out of it, and place it in Lawyer's Mall so that every Maryland senator and representative is reminded of this past boondoggle each and every time they walk from their offices to the Statehouse to vote.
As a measure of how many handguns are owned in Maryland the figure is useless since it only accounts for those sold after the "database" was created, does not included used handguns or already owned ones.
Maverick0313
Retired and loving it
Reads like they are trying to justify a failed program along with the time and money.
- Feb 19, 2013
- 18,766
What year did it begin?
bkuether
Judge not this race .....
A liberal's favorite words. "Could".
And as usual, the real outcome is "Can't"
Insanity, doing the same thing over and over and over again, expecting different results.....
And as usual, the real outcome is "Can't"
Insanity, doing the same thing over and over and over again, expecting different results.....
Z_Man
Ultimate Member
this article definitely made it seem that there are 10s of thousands of crimes just waiting to be solved by these shell casings... if only that machine worked....
yes because the 300 murders a year by guns in baltimore would all be solved if that magically machine just worked....
the writer, and editor of the article are either stupid or ignorant...
yes because the 300 murders a year by guns in baltimore would all be solved if that magically machine just worked....
the writer, and editor of the article are either stupid or ignorant...
Hawkeye
The Leatherstocking
- Jan 29, 2009
- 3,971
Well, part of the voiceover said that each one of those boxes holds "100 - 150" shell casings. Maybe it's just me, but those boxes look like they'd hold more than that.
2000.
Plus, near the end of the story the reporter's voiceover says that "unlike the Federal system" Maryland's system was never effective because the equipment didn't work. What Federal system? Some bad reporting there.
As usual, Fox 45 accurately represents itself as the red headed step child of journalism. By far the worst of a bad local bunch....
Easy peasy. Just run those casings through the scanner, wait for the matches to spit out and go to pick up whoever was listed as the purchaser. So easy, a caveman could do it.
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