Busybody Democrats: "the Maryland “database” is a testimonial to the wasteful, unconstitutional malevolence of the Leftist project."

Maryland Gun Fingerprint Database a Complete Failure | PJ Tatler

Posted By Michael Walsh On November 10, 2015  In Politics,Science,Second Amendment 

Another dumb idea bites the dust:

Millions of dollars later, Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the “fingerprints” of thousands of handguns was a failure. Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The idea was to build a database of “ballistic fingerprints” to help solve future crimes. But the system — plagued by technological problems — never solved a single case. Now the hundreds of thousands of accumulated casings could be sold for scrap.

“Obviously, I’m disappointed,” said former Gov. Parris N. Glendening, a Democrat whose administration pushed for the database to fulfill a campaign promise. “It’s a little unfortunate, in that logic and common sense suggest that it would be a good crime-fighting tool.”

Actually, no they don’t. Lawful gun owners, who buy their firearms in federally licensed shops, generally don’t commit crimes. Bad guys — who steal them or buy them on the black market — do.

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