CPRC in the Sunday Washington Post: “Maryland’s long-overdue goodbye to ballistic fingerprinting”
John Lott - Crime Prevention Research Center | Published on 2/10/2022
Ballistic fingerprinting was all the rage 15 years ago. Maryland led the way, setting up a computer database on new guns and the markings they made on bullets. New York soon followed. The days of criminal gun use were supposedly numbered.
It didn’t work.
The registration of ballistic fingerprints never solved a single crime in Maryland or New York. New York scrapped its program in 2012. This month, Maryland announced it was following suit.