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Showing Original Post only (View all)$44 Million, Not A Single Crime Soved, Cuomo Tells Legislature Scrap Bullet Tracking [View all]
http://www.ammoland.com/2012/01/30/44-million-not-a-single-crime-soved-cuomo-tells-legislature-scrap-bullet-tracking/[div class='excerpt']After collecting over 356,000 spent shell casings since March 2001 at an estimated cost of nearly $44 million, not a single crime has been solved because of the program, NYSRPA says.
By any rational measure, CoBIS has been a total failure, said NYSRPA President Tom King.
Was it MD or MA that has *one* solved case because of 'ballistic fingerprinting'?
Hint to lawmakers: Don't use CSI:Somewhere as the basis for your laws. A simple barrel swap, a good cleaning, or firing an additional 250 rounds through a gun will change the 'fingerprint'.
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$44 Million, Not A Single Crime Soved, Cuomo Tells Legislature Scrap Bullet Tracking [View all]
X_Digger
Jan 2012
OP
Why swap barrels when you could just add a reddotthing or simply strap on an alternate or two?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jan 2012
#4
Ammunition To Go (dot) com ... they have numerous tracer and incendiary calibers.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2012
#12
Given that tracers are used to 'walk' rounds into a target, I'm sure this was a joke
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2012
#20
How many years does it take for a suposedly "legal" gun purchase to be used in a crime?
Bloberman1959
Jan 2012
#21
IIRC, the FBI says something like an average of 11 years from retail sale to crime.
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#34
11 years is 'immediate'? Awesome, I can recover that spare room since my kid will be moving out
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2012
#36
That is already being done. State/ county/ city backed "no questions asked" buy backs
oneshooter
Feb 2012
#44