$44 Million, Not A Single Crime Soved, Cuomo Tells Legislature Scrap Bullet Tracking

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40. Sorry X Digger, you and the good folks

over at ammoland may have jumped the gun on the end of ballistic fingerprinting.

Urging the State Senate to Include Microstamping in Budget

Assemblywoman Schimel calls for inclusion of CoBIS in state budget.

On Valentine’s Day, family members who have lost loved ones to gun violence along with advocates and law enforcement officials joined senators and assemblymembers at the state capitol to urge the state senate to include microstamping in their budget proposal. The governor’s executive budget eliminates CoBIS, the state’s pistol and revolver ballistic identification database, leaving a gap in the ability of law enforcement to link shell casings back to the gun that fired them.

http://newhydepark.patch.com/articles/urging-the-state-senate-to-include-microstamping-in-budget

These well-meaning people are again ready to start wasting taxpayers money on a program that has spent $44 million that has accomplished next to nothing. But, its pretty easy when it ain't your money. But with all the surplus money floating around in NY, they gotta spend it on something.