Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a manufacturer that doesn’t test-fire their firearms before shipping.
The fired casing in the envelope that used to be shipped with a lot of firearms was because of Maryland’s Responsible Gun Safety Act of 2000. The law mandated firearms manufacturers provide state police with a spent bullet casing of every handgun to be sold in Maryland.
In an old fallout shelter beneath Maryland State Police headquarters in Pikesville, the state had amassed more than 300,000 bullet casings, one from each new handgun sold in Maryland since the law took effect. They filled three cavernous rooms secured by a common combination lock.
Each casing was meticulously stamped with a bar code, sealed in its own envelope and filed in boxes stacked from floor to ceiling. Forensic scientists photographed the casings in hopes the system would someday identify the owner of a gun fired at a crime scene. The system cost an estimated $5 million to set up and operate over the years.
It was never used to solve a single case, and was scrapped after 15 years. The plan was to sell off all the casings for scrap metal, but I don’t know exactly what they did with them.
If a gun was shipped to a dealer in Maryland, they took that fired case out of the box and sent it to the state police to be catalogued and stored.
The fired casing in the envelope that used to be shipped with a lot of firearms was because of Maryland’s Responsible Gun Safety Act of 2000. The law mandated firearms manufacturers provide state police with a spent bullet casing of every handgun to be sold in Maryland.
In an old fallout shelter beneath Maryland State Police headquarters in Pikesville, the state had amassed more than 300,000 bullet casings, one from each new handgun sold in Maryland since the law took effect. They filled three cavernous rooms secured by a common combination lock.
Each casing was meticulously stamped with a bar code, sealed in its own envelope and filed in boxes stacked from floor to ceiling. Forensic scientists photographed the casings in hopes the system would someday identify the owner of a gun fired at a crime scene. The system cost an estimated $5 million to set up and operate over the years.
It was never used to solve a single case, and was scrapped after 15 years. The plan was to sell off all the casings for scrap metal, but I don’t know exactly what they did with them.
If a gun was shipped to a dealer in Maryland, they took that fired case out of the box and sent it to the state police to be catalogued and stored.
