Bullet Fingerprinting

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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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unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: ballistic identification
plural: Bullet Fingerprintings
possessive: Bullet Fingerprinting's
pluralpossessive: Bullet Fingerprintings'

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