Firearms

Ballistics, Firearms, Bullets, Cartridge Cases, Shooting Scenes. We’ve heard these terms on TV and in movies. But what do they mean? What role do they play in an investigation? IFL is staffed with court-qualified, trained, and certified firearm examiners. We’ve worked thousands of criminal and civil cases. From the simple to the complex, we can handle your firearms case.

Here are some examples of typical analyses performed by our firearms section:

- Evaluation of ammunition components

- Examination & evaluation of firearm

- Ammunition comparison

- Toolmark comparison

- Distance Determination, Rifled Barrels or Smoothbore

- Serial number restoration

- Gunpowder evaluation

- Shooting Scene Reconstructions