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To: Loyal Sedition

Your claim that a bullet can’t be proven to come from a specific gun without it being witnessed being shot is incorrect .

Weapons recovered from crime scenes are test fired, the bullets recovered then compared under a microscope along with bullets/cartrige cases recovered from the crime scene & the deceased.

Using microscopic comparison of rifling marks on the bullets as well a marks put onto the cartrige cases by the bolt face,extractor ,ejector,magazine feed lips,chamber of barrel bullets can in fact be matched to specific weapons .


24 posted on 07/26/2011 11:14:15 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Nebr FAL owner

Probably with about the same alleged certainty as fingerprints. :-(
In the end a determination is made by fallible humans.

My original point was responding to the claim that a bullet can be identified as coming from a specific type or model of gun, without having the gun to compare it to.


25 posted on 07/26/2011 11:29:02 PM PDT by Loyal Sedition (Loyal Sedition, often described as "To the right of Attila The Hun"!)
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