The Basics
Calculations
Evidence
Firearms
Miscellaneous
100
The science of analyzing firearm usage in a crime.
What is forensic ballistics?
100
The acronym that shows the order of sides in relation to the angle for calculating an unknown.
What is SOHCAHTOA or Oscar Had A Heap Of Apples
100
Three types of ballistic evidence found at a crime scene.
What is spent ammunition, fragments, casings, magazines, wounds, GSR, wadding, firearm,
100
These are the three categories of ballistics?
Internal, External, and Terminal
100
Any of the manners of death.
What is accidental, homicide, suicide, undetermined, natural
200
The term for the bullet's path through the air.
Trajectory
200
Must be found in order to calculate the position of a shooter.
What are two points of reference?
200
Can be compared as evidence containing manufacturer and calliber.
What is a headstamp?
200
This type of firearm includes rifles and shotguns
What is a long gun?
200
Contains, soot, powders of Antimony, Lead, and Barium.
What is gunshot residue.
300
Two locations of fire pin markings
What is center or rim?
300
Calculate the angle of impact given this bullet hole.
What is
300
A database of firearm evidence used by law enforcement.
What is NIBIN, The National Integrated Ballistics Information Network?
300
Three types of ammunition
What are bullets, slug, and shot.
300
The difference between entry and exit holes.
entry holes are smaller containing wipe and are more uniform;
exit holes are larger, more fractured.
400
Ocurrs as a bullet leaves the barrel of a firearm.
What is rifling?
400
Must be accounted for in determining the height of a shooter.
What is the distance above the shoulders?
400
A dark ring at the entry of a bullet hole.
What is bullet wipe?
400
The inside diameter of the shotgun.
What is guage?
400
The direction of striations if rifling is clockwise.
What is from lower left to upper right?
500
The direction of the bullet
What is North East?
500
What is 5'6"?
500
A wound pattern that occurs with close range firing.
What is a burn or star shape tear.
500
Required since 1968 Gun Control Act
What is Serial Number?
500
Three items entered into NIBIN
What is...?