Maryland Ballistic Fingerprinting in the news

[Billie J Grey]

The Ballistic Fingerprinting system implemented in Maryland has been in 
the news.  There were articles in the Baltimore Sun on Nov. 6 and 7, but 
they are only accessible to registered users so including a link did not 
seem to be useful.  http://www.sunspot.net

This website has the report scanned into PDF format.  It is large and is 
scanned at three different levels of quality. 

http://www.calgunlaws.com/print-article-409.html

Detractors have pointed out that all four of the instances when they 
MD-IBIS database has been used to make a match involved the police 
having the firearm.  The cartridges which were matched were test 
firings.  In fact, all four of the firearms were identified as stolen.  
Two of them had obliterated serial numbers which the ATF lab had been 
unable to restore. 

The other two had serial numbers and had been reported missing as a 
result of theft.  It seems odd that they would match the guns by 
ballistic fingerprint when they had the serial numbers and the report 
from the theft. 

BJGrey

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