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Ballistic Fingerprinting

nounid 20099·updated May 18, 2026
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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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synonym
ballistic identification
plural
Ballistic Fingerprintings
possessive
Ballistic Fingerprinting's
pluralpossessive
Ballistic Fingerprintings'

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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
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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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