Comment on Anon creates a mystery
Nomad@infosec.pub 23 hours agoApparently matching guns to bullets is mostly pseudoscience. They can match caliber and firearm type quite reliably but that’s about it.
Comment on Anon creates a mystery
Nomad@infosec.pub 23 hours agoApparently matching guns to bullets is mostly pseudoscience. They can match caliber and firearm type quite reliably but that’s about it.
cynar@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The big problem is that bullets are soft. When they hit anything solid (like bone) they deform. Bullet matching is fine when the bullet is undamaged, but that generally isn’t the case, unless it missed and hit something soft and non-ablatative.
Trying to match damaged bullets is very unreliable.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 20 hours ago
Gasp! American cop apologia media had been lying to me?
cynar@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Apparently CSI had lawyers on both sides cursing it 20+ years ago (when I did a uni module on forensics). Juries expected concise, absolute results. Instead they get probabilities, maybes, and shades of grey.
I dread to think what it is like now.