Ballistics · Free course
Forensic Ballistics: The Basics
A beginner's guide to forensic ballistics: types of firearms and ammunition, internal, external and terminal ballistics, class and individual marks on bullets and cartridge cases, the comparison microscope, gunshot residue by SEM-EDX, estimating range of fire, safe handling at scenes, and the Arms Act, 1959 and the expert's report in India.
About 45 min · 8 questions
What you’ll cover
- What forensic ballistics is and what it can tell you
- A short history of firearms identification
- Firearms and ammunition: the basic vocabulary
- Three stages of ballistics, and the marks a gun leaves
- In the laboratory: comparison, gunshot residue and range of fire
- At the scene and in court in India
- Studying further and key takeaways
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