“NEWTOWN, Conn –-(Ammoland.com)- On Tuesday morning, Gov. Larry Hogan signed SB 736, the repeal of Maryland’s ballistics imaging program that had required firearms manufacturers and retailers to submit bullet casings for all handguns sold in the state.
“The signing of the bill is a victory for the industry as it brings to an end a decade-and-a-half-long experiment in crime lab technology that never worked, but that was embraced by gun control advocates.
“Under the direction of Jake McGuigan, Director, Government Relations-State Affairs, NSSF has worked diligently to repeal this legislation. The effort was capped by a final push in the waning days of the legislative session to repeal the 15-year-old law that had been defunded more than seven years ago.”
Defunded more than seven years ago? I guess they weren’t getting their money’s worth.
I wonder if anyone anywhere ever solved a homicide based on shell casing(s) left at the scene and catalogued in some imaging database? As I said in an earlier post on this subject, if I lived in a state that employed this nonsense, the first thing I would do after buying a new gun for which an expended shell had been sent off to a state agency would be to alter it to change those markings left on fired shells. And I’d do this before firing the first shot with my new gun.