Article: MARYLAND ENDS BALLISTIC FINGERPRINTING DATABASE AFTER 15 YEARS, $5 MILLION,

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[Horrible]

Money well-spent. Just another gun control scheme to add costs to the manufacturers. Glade that it made MD taxpayers safer.

 

[Lcstyle]

electronic or "smart guns" will suffer the same fate. I don't mean to hijack here, but can't we just head off a similar and very expensive (to the taxpayer) catastrophe by declaring smart guns a bad idea?

As S.H. Blannelberry points out there's a myriad of things that can go wrong:

Several companies have come to SHOT Show in the past several years, advertising that they have figured out how to make smartguns 100% reliable in a self defense situation, but after testing, the technology is nowhere near as foolproof as they claim. Armatix’s iP1 pistol, is one of them, a smart gun that requires a radio-frequency-emitting watch to operate. Sure, it’s prohibitively expensive at $1,800, but from the looks of things it is rather reliable — so long as you remember to where your watch! The watch/ring/band RFID concept has been tried before, and it’s really a joke. What about a year later when you can buy RFID gun jammers on Ebay?

Do gun owners really want to depend on outsourced tech support in India when their "smart guns" break? Because inevitably that's where tech support always ends up. Thanks but no thanks.

https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/bill-would-force-gun-dealers-to-sell-smart-guns/

 

[Stevireno]

was someone going to rifle through the 300,000 casings to match one found at a crime scene? A computer assisted image match would likely cost even more than the $15mil.. What a joke.

 

[Dadstoys]

Ah yes, and the streets of Maryland have vastly improved since 2000.
Says no one.

 

[Lank]

Wow, another Democrat bad idea. Check out my surprised face.

 

[Crotchrocket]

Idiots.

 

[pavlin]

What about if one changes firing pin, firing pin spring and extractor on.... let's say Glock. The casing marking will be already totally different. Morons!!! Change the barrel and even bullet will have different grove pattern. Change barrel every time crime is committed and it will look like different gun was used every time