Maryland's "Ballistic Fingerprinting" a Bust
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Maryland's "Ballistic Fingerprinting" a Bust





Attempts to create a state-wide registry of cartridges fired from every handgun sold in Maryland have produced no results to solve any crimes and should be discontinued so the money wasted can be put toward productive crime-fighting in the future. That's the gist of a report from the state police recommending an end to the failed attempt to misuse the science of ballistic imaging. Valuable toward convictions in court proceedings and helpful when a limited number of cartridges are examined to match a gun to crimes, ballistic images cannot successfully be kept in large numbers and compared against a database for matches. A study by the California Department of Justice revealed a failure rate of more than 62 percent when that state decided against adopting a system like the ones in Maryland and New York. Sanford Abrams, vice president of the Maryland Licensed Firearms Dealers Association, told The Washington Times the system is technically flawed and expensive. "We're all in favor of law-enforcement tools that actually work," he said. "This doesn't."
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