• flandish@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    how does one look at a fired round, presumably beat to shit from impact, and trace it back to a origin? unless this is people assuming the entire round fires and have no understanding?

      • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Are you AI?

        Because it took you 5s to find an incorrect answer and confidently link to a Wikipedia article, that doesn’t answer the question.

      • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        5 seconds of reading and critical thinking would dismiss what you linked. The posted article is for linking bullets to found guns. They didn’t seem to find the guns. Just the bullets.

        Also like much of forensics, forensic tool mark and bullet mark analysis is crock full of shit. Like much forensics, attempts to ground it in robust reproducable controlled science and statistical work has fared poorly. I would not rely on it for this or really anything.