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Originally Posted by Wormius
I wonder if gun manufacturers should or are being required to do ballistics tests on all of the guns prior to selling them so that they are on record somewhere if law enforcement need to know where a particular gun was sold, etc.
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Maryland tried it from 2000-2015 and scrapped the whole thing after it didn't help solve or prevent any crimes. The software was so bad that even after they logged all the scans, a search of a recovered casing would return hundreds of positive matches.
New York tried it and abandoned the project. And the Department of Justice and the National Research Council studied the value of doing it on a national level and concluded it was impractical and a waste of money.