The Washington State Patrol (WSP) Crime Laboratory Division (CLD) is currently addressing challenges that have led to a backlog of over a year for firearm forensics. Firearm forensics, or forensic ...

Ballistics expert Capt Laurance Makgotloe has told the Madlanga commission that mistakes will continue to occur in forensic ...

BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. - It may look like an unassuming container from the outside, but inside it's a game changer for forensic firearms experts in Berks County. "This is the shooting room that is ...

Bullet casings under examination at the state crime lab in 2023. (Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) A national firearms database used by Rhode Island State Crime Lab last month flagged a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A television in Baltimore Circuit Court showed a magnified picture of spent cartridge casings ...

In any trial involving a shooting, there's a good chance that sooner or later the jury will hear testimony from a forensic ballistics examiner. Ballistics testing, and in particular the study of ...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists at Maynooth University in Ireland have developed a new test that successfully recovers fingerprints from spent bullet casings. This achievement, often ...

LEWISVILLE, TX—In a nondescript Lewisville business park, ballistics evidence is processed in a lab tucked in the rear of an office building. The whir of the camera makes the microscopic defects on ...

The Cumberland County Forensics Laboratory could have its firearms testing and ballistics unit ready and operational in September, District Attorney Sean McCormack said last week.