From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Of course, they could just check the gun for DNA and figure out
>who fired it that way ;-b
You might laugh, but we presently have a case in which DNA was found on
the cartridge case. Of course this merely proves contact with the
object, not wh
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would they check the suspects for DNA matches against the recovered shot gun
in our contributor's novel before or after they had attacked them with their
personal thermobaric weapons. On a less sarcastic note I suppose that at
least it now means th
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Can anyone on the list help with a hypothetical situation for a fiction I'm
>working on?
>
>Someone is shot dead with an illeglly acquired shotgun with sawn-off barrels.
>The police get hold of the gun.
>
>Once the police put it through foren
From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>There was a notable case involving just this issue some years ago. A bank
>clerk was shot dead with a shot gun using Eley cartridges. Some (long) time
>later the police raided the perpetrator's house. A box of cartridges was
>found and the shot wa
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chambering marks are most definitely left on the are just forward of the
rims of a shot gun cartridge when it is fired in a typical single or double
barrel gun with an extractor. It is just that on the properly made ones you
cannot notice it. On on
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Can anyone on the list help with a hypothetical situation for a fiction I'm
>working on?
--snip--
>Barry Woodward
>--
>There's quite a lot of ways, comparison of firing pin indents on
>the primers, they can also determine what ammunition
From: RustyÿBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Once the police put it through forensic tests, is it in anyway possible to
>link that gun with a former killing? I know it's easy with a rifled weapon,
>but what can be done with a shotgun?
>The way I see it any cartridges impounded with the g
From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If it's used at close range, all sorts of give-away debris ends up on the
outside of the barrel(s) and the user...especially in a confined space. A
sawn-off isn't going to lend itself to long range sniping, so unless the
owner of the shotgun is
From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There was a notable case involving just this issue some years ago. A bank
clerk was shot dead with a shot gun using Eley cartridges. Some (long) time
later the police raided the perpetrator's house. A box of cartridges was
found and the shot was fo
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone on the list help with a hypothetical situation for a fiction I'm
working on?
Someone is shot dead with an illeglly acquired shotgun with sawn-off barrels.
The police get hold of the gun.
Once the police put it through forensic tests, is it in anywa
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