Say 'Buh Bye' to CoBIS?

New York is actually doing something intelligent and is proposing dumping its $44m boondoggle defacto gun registration through ballistic fingerprinting scheme. From the NYSRPA:

ALBANY, NY (01/22/2012)(readMedia)-- The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association applauds Governor Cuomo's proposal to scrap the Combined Ballistic Identification System (CoBIS). After collecting over 356,000 spent shell casings since March 2001 at an estimated cost of nearly $44 million, not a single crime has been solved because of the program.

"By any rational measure, CoBIS has been a total failure," said NYSRPA President Tom King. "What is astounding is that there are actually elected officials defending it. Only in Albany would you find people who think that a program which has run for more than 10 years without producing a single result is good public policy."

NYSRPA strongly encourages the legislature to put an end to this farce and pass A-1131/S-459.

I'll disagree w/ Mr. King on one point, it's not just in Albany. There are anti-gun fanatics like that scattered throughout the country. Just look at DC, Chicago and CA for examples.