15 years ago, Maryland implemented one of those “common sense gun control regulations” that gun-grabbers like “Everytown for Gun Safety” babble about, and that Real Americans warned was going to be a boondoggle and a waste of time and resources better spent on policing.<\/p>\n
Every [legally] gun sold in Maryland was test-fired; its spent casing was scanned, bar-coded, and stored away for future reference. \u00a0There is\u00a0<\/em>some valid science to the process – every gun leaves a unique pattern of scratches on its shell casing when it’s extracted, a trait that\u00a0has\u00a0<\/em>led to some crimes being solved (when analyzing the casings of guns\u00a0used in crimes<\/em>).<\/p>\n But the process added $60 to the cost of every gun sold in Maryland [legally] over that time.<\/p>\n Maryland just scrapped the program, after spending millions (and extorting millions more from taxpayers), and, as predicted by Real Americans, solving exactly zero crimes:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Maryland ballistics database has been a failure from its inception,\u201d Amy Hunter, spokeswoman for the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, told FoxNews.com. \u201cThe program has been effectively defunct for several years. Funding has been discontinued, and the personnel associated with the program have been reassigned, yet the requirement persisted and its costs were passed on to the consumer. The NRA-ILA supported the repeal and is pleased it\u2019s now in effect.\u201d…Throughout its run, the Maryland database helped investigators a total of 26 times, but with each case, they already knew which gun was in question, state police officials said. New York had followed Maryland\u2019s lead and created a database of their own, but funding was pulled in 2012 when that program proved ineffective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And doesn’t this sound just like certain gun grabbers in Minnesota to you?:<\/p>\n Some backers say the program could have worked if authorities had stuck with it, claiming that handguns used in crimes are typically as old as 20 years or more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “If you squeeze civil liberties long enough, eventually\u00a0you’ll catch a bad guy, probably, we think”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 15 years ago, Maryland implemented one of those “common sense gun control regulations” that gun-grabbers like “Everytown for Gun Safety” babble about, and that Real Americans warned was going to be a boondoggle and a waste of time and resources better spent on policing. Every [legally] gun sold in Maryland was test-fired; its spent casing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56080,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079\/revisions\/56080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}