Sniper Case Revives Debate on Ballistic Fingerprinting
The recent sniper shootings in the Washington area have rekindled a national and local debate about the viability of using ballistic fingerprinting to link crimes to specific guns.
Police, experts and lobbyists disagree about whether ballistic and toolmark identification, commonly referred to as ballistic fingerprinting, is an effective way to link bullets found at crime scenes to the guns that fired them.
