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Subject: It's a Match: NIST and Prince George's County Crime Lab Team Up on Ballistics Research
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Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:01 AM
Subject: It's a Match: NIST and Prince George's County Crime Lab Team Up on Ballistics Research
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08/11/2014 02:09 PM EDT
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are working to improve ballistics matching methods with assistance from the Prince George's County, Maryland, Police Department Crime Laboratory. Their work together will contribute to a collection of topographic data from thousands of fired bullets and cartridge cases.
The collection, which they ultimately plan to issue as an open research database, will improve the scientific basis of forensic techniques used to match bullets and cartridge cases to specific firearms. The biggest potential improvements in firearms identification will come from the ability to measure the degree of similarity between marks left on bullets and cartridge cases by different firearms and the variability of marks made by an individual firearm.
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Jeremy Tobias Matthews
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