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While I lived in MD (last 5 years) I bought a few handguns that all were required to have a spent shell casing and bullet submitted to the MD State Police. This was all done automatically and not required to be completed by me personally.

This ballistics fingerprinting is a burden on law enforcement resources who have to maintain the physical inventory as well as the databases that contain all the info on the gun and spent casings. To date not a single case has been solved with the help of BF. I believe MD is mothballing the program as it did not meet the state's expectations and also was costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=97

Of course our friends, The Brady Bunch, want the program in every state.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/issu ... =ballistic

What gun control advocates really want is the proven result of ballistic fingerprinting -- reduced gun sales.

The Maryland law reduced 2001 handgun sales to their lowest level in 10 years. Handgun sales have continued to drop in 2002, according to the Maryland State Police.