Maryland ends bullet ID program after 15 years......

[ttousi]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/10/sc ... tcmp=hpbt1

Maryland ends bullet ID program after 15 years, $5M and zero cases solved

An ambitious plan by Maryland to catalog the “fingerprint” of every gun sold in the state -- making dealers fire a shot and send in the spent casing -- is being scrapped, literally.

State authorities have conceded that the bullet ID program, enacted in 2000, cost $5 million, was plagued by technical problems and did not solve a single crime. Now, the 300,000 shell casings, one from every handgun sold in the state since the law took effect, will now be sold for scrap metal.

[Ghost]

[Nougat]

too bad the microstamping advocates in CA will never hear about this, being on the other side of the country and all.

[farmerj]

But think of the children......

[Rip Van Winkle]

Only $5 million over 15 years? I'd say that's a typo or someone is fudging numbers to hide their incompetence.

[2in2out]

That seemed low to me, but I don't know much about the program.

[MJY65]

Only $5 million over 15 years? I'd say that's a typo or someone is fudging numbers to hide their incompetence.

Yes. No self respecting bureaucrat would admit to numbers that low. Perhaps they were referring to the yearly cost.

[Rip Van Winkle]

Here's an article from 10 years ago, with the state police recommending scrapping the system. Here it says they spent $2.6 million, which still seems ridiculously low to me.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16475-2005Jan17.html