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The official website of AFTE offers news, member and guest forums and member resources. The AFTE Journal, [5] the quarterly, peer-reviewed publication of the organization, contains scholarly articles, case reports, technical reports and occasional reprints.
For this reason, forensic ballistics examiners may not fire more than five shots from a weapon found at a scene. [3] Known exemplars taken from a seized weapon can be compared to samples recovered from a scene using a comparison microscope as well as newer 3-D imaging technology. Striation images can also be uploaded to national databases.
In 1999, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) established and began administration of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network. [3] In this program, ATF administers automated ballistic imaging technology for law enforcement, forensic science, and attorney agencies in the United States that have entered into a formal agreement with ATF to enter ballistic ...
Sep. 9—The Albuquerque Police Department has signed an agreement with the Pueblo of Isleta Police Department to allow the tribal agency to use APD's bullet-testing capabilities. Danielle Silva ...
Kenneth Roberson's lyrics chronicled the gang violence he saw in his hometown of Houston. "I don't know how to move on," said Ferguson-Smith, who has started a nonprofit group called TEARS to help ...
The Integrated Ballistics Identification System, or IBIS, is the brand of the Automated firearms identification system manufactured by Forensic Technology WAI, Inc., of Montreal, Canada. Use [ edit ]
Automated Firearms Identification has its roots in the United States, the country with the highest per capita firearms ownership. [1] [2] In 1993, the Federal Bureau of Investigation commissioned Mnemonics Systems Inc. to develop Drugfire, which enabled law enforcement agencies to capture images of cartridge casings into computers, and automate the process of comparing a suspect cartridge ...
QuickLOAD has a default database of predefined bullets, cartridges and propellants. The database of the more recent versions of QuickLOAD also include dimensional technical drawings of the predefined cartridges and for most cartridges photographic images. Data can later be imported or entered by the user to expand the programs database.