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Today's Idiot of the Year

Inside Emmett C. Burns, Jr. - Way inside.

In 2000 Maryland legislators created law requiring all new hand guns to include two spent cartridges to be filed with the police.  The idea was that after the commission of a gun crime the cops would bend over, pick up the spent casing, and use it like a fingerprint to identify the gun's owner.  Evidently not a single lawmaker thought to ask the obvious question:  what about revolvers?   Gun manufacturers refused to comply, and with every gun store in Maryland about to close down without new merchandise, the idiots revoked the law.  Meet Emmett C. Burns. Baptist Minister, Democrat member of Maryland's House of Delegates, and sponsor of a bill that surpasses in its lunacy that cluster fukc. “ ANNAPOLIS - A crime-fighting plan to require serial numbers on all ammunition sold in Maryland was denounced Tuesday by gun supporters, including the president of a Washington County sportsmen's group. Ammunition would be tracked through a state police database, paid for by a tax of 5 cents per round, starting Jan. 1, 2009. "This gives law enforcement the DNA trail of the bullet," giving police a jump on investigations otherwise bogged down by lab-testing delays, Russell Ford said. Testifying at a House Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday, Ford, of Seattle, said he has a patent for ammunition-encoding technology. [cont] ” My suggestion to Mr, Burns was he take one of his serial numbered bullets and shoot himself in the head with it, and see if the state police could track the owner down after it had bounced around his thick skull. I guess he tried it, because the bill was pulled today.