"A" at the end of the item number denotes a spent case is included with the pistol.

The last new Glock that I bought came with two spent cases in a little manilla envelope. It's my understanding that in some areas your FFL would be required to send those spent cases to some authority so that they may be entered into a ballistic database.
 
My P9 came with a spent case. My MK9 Elite didn`t.

When I had my HP done, the smith sent me a couple of spent cases and a target to show accuracy, firing pin strike, etc.
 
I think if I found out that one of my guns had been "balistically fingerprinted", I would either sell it or get a new barrel and do some modifications to the firing pin/extractor just out of spite.
 
I believe the People's Republik of Maryland requires a spent case for firing pin identification. They may also require the man. to send the bullet, I can't recall for sure. Just another reason I don't live over there anymore, and won't ever again.

Things are somewhat better over here in Ole Virginny. Tried living elsewhere, but the job keeps bringing me back here.

Charter member of Virginia's Gun of the Month Club.
 
My brothers new Glock came with two spent brass casings. My dealer Denny said that he has had more and more handguns come to him with casings sent along.
 
Wayward nailed it. My MK9 had a case in a little manila envelope with a statement to the effect of "I certify under penalty of perjury that on such and such date I test fired pistol serial no XXX and that the enclosed case is from that pistol", with the technician's signature. Fired cases aren't required in PRK (though I can't imagine why not, with the legislators here asking HCI what they should do next), so I tossed it in the trash.
 
Noo Yawk too!!!!

The PRNY requires a spent casing with new guns thanks to Gov Pataki's new law.

I have purchased my last new handgun here.



Geoff Ross
 
I'm just glad they don't do that assurd practice here in Florida.

What purpose does it serve when it comes to identifying a weapon? With use the weapons individual "fingerprint" will change. Changes in spring extractor tension, scratches from magazine lips, firing pin wear and a host of other factors change the pattern. Then you have customer changes such as new firing pins, barrels, polishing of feedramps and chambers as well as different characteristics of brass from various manufacturers.

Sounds like someone who doesn't know squat about weapons is trying to do their daily good deed. Any lawyer worth his salt could beat a conviction based upon brass submitted by this law being used as evidence in a clients weapon.

Good SHooting
RED
 
I know this won't be popular on this forum, but I don't find anything objectionable in this practice. It's doesn't appear to me that it keeps me from buying or using a gun, and it may help solve crimes, so I say what the heck?

If my gun is ever stolen from me, and used in the commission of a crime, I hope that the law enforcement officers can use the info to catch the guy that committed the crime. Probably the fact that they know where/when the gun was stolen from me will be a big help.

I guess I should be more paranoid, but I had to get a security clearance, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, if you can imagine that. We knew the "classified" embassy evacuation procedures. At any rate, I figure that anyone who ever had a security clearance is an open book for life for the feds. I'm sure they still have my fingerprints in some file, and they may have interviewed all of my neighbors. That doesn't keep me awake at night.

Mike P. Wagner
 
The reference to Maryland requiring a shell casing with every new gun is correct. The casing from the factory is sent to the state police to be filed away. Governer Glendening requires this to assist in the tracking of a weapon used in a crime by referencing the spent shell casing. I still can't think about without laughing. After all, doesn't the "ballistic fingerprint" of an arm change over time, anyway, making this feel-good legislation? Several manufacturer's have stopped shipping to Maryland (Glock, Para-Ordnance) until they can get their shell cases put together, as is the case for Glock; or they're not going to ship to us at all.
 
And that's the real purpose, after all the feel-good, crime-prevention crap is stripped away.
 
Hmmmm..it all makes sense now..

The casing from the factory is sent to the state police to be filed away.

Someone in a high position in with the Maryland State Police is a reloader and wants free brass! See, after a couple if years they will no doubt discontinue this silly practice and all that brass will have to be "disposed" of!:D

Good Shooting
RED
 
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