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Because some states require test firing of newly manufactured guns before they can be legally sold (Mass. for one). It's nothing more than a simple proof of function. Regardless of what the "tin-foil hat mafia" wants you to believe. No state pays to have an electron microscope record bullet markings to be put into some secret file archive or database.
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