Ballistics / Firearms / Tool Mark Examination

03-May-2008

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Ballistics : the Science of Guns
It was a firearms case, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on a snow-blown February 14, 1929, that led to the opening of the first independent scientific crime detection laboratory in America. Source: the Crime Library.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/ballistics/2.html

 

Comprehensive Ballistic Fingerprinting of New Guns: A Tool for Solving and Preventing Violent Crime
This new 6-page publication, written by Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH, co-director of the John Hopkings Center for Gun Policy and Research, analyzes the many sides of the issue of comprehensive ballistic fingerprinting: the potential law enforcement and public health benefits of implementing such a policy, the need for additional information on the effects of such policies to date, and the common arguments against comprehensive ballistic fingerprinting laws.
http://www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy/ballistic_fingerprinting.pdf

 

FirearmsID.com
An introduction to forensic firearms identification.
http://www.firearmsid.com/

 

 

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