Ballistic Identification

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identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it

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Variants

5 surface forms

synonym: ballistic fingerprintingbullet fingerprinting
plural: Ballistic Identifications
possessive: Ballistic Identification's
pluralpossessive: Ballistic Identifications'

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