Ballistic examination

Judicial ballistics examination is ordered in the event that there is disagreement with the results of the official investigation. It is used as a refutation or withdrawal of arguments and documents that are presented at the trial by the other party, or as evidence of their position in the consideration of the criminal case.

Ballistic examination is used in relation to the weapons that were used in the commission of the crime. This study allows you to answer a number of questions and find out some of the circumstances, namely:

1. Is the weapon a gunshot.
2. The location of the victim and the shooter at the time of the shot.
3. Type, model of weapons.
4. Was there a shot from the weapon or not.

Often, specialists work with materials that constitute a criminal case, photographic tables, inspection protocols or materials of research conducted earlier. This is due to the fact that sometimes it is not possible to investigate firearms, cartridges or bullets.

Ballistic examination involves the study of the firearm itself, its details, mechanisms. Depending on the circumstances of the case, other shooting devices may be included in the objects. For example, they include alarm devices, construction assembly pistols, as well as pneumatic and gas weapons. Ballistic expertise is also used for ammunition and ammunition, their components (capsules, shells, bullets). The objects of research include mechanisms, tools, materials that are used to produce firearms, specific elements, ammunition, equipment. Ballistic expertise is used to study shooting shells and bullets, traces of the use of this firearm (marks from a shot), materials of the criminal case, samples that were obtained during the investigation.

The implementation of identification studies provides solutions to a number of issues. Mainly, the objects are assigned to ammunition or firearms. In the course of research, the type, model, type of shooting device, ammunition for the device itself and ammunition, as well as on the tracks on firing shells, shot bullets, traces on the barrier is established. The study of objects makes it possible to reveal the belonging of the elements presented to a certain firearm or parts to a certain munition. In the course of identification studies, the gunshot character of the injuries (marks from the shot) is established.

In particular, the conduct of forensic examination by a diagnostic method makes it possible to identify weapons in the footsteps left on the cartridges and bullets. Using this method makes it possible to establish the belonging of parts to a specific instance of a weapon, a cartridge case and a bullet to one cartridge. This study allows us to identify the mechanisms and tools that were used in the production of the firing mechanism, ammunition, equipment, and determine their serviceability. In the course of the study, it is possible to shoot certain cartridges from a specific weapon, to conduct targeted systematic firing, direction, distance, and also the location of the shot. Together with this, the location of the victim and the shooter is determined, as well as the number of shots and the sequence of damage formation.

Ballistic expertise is carried out by forensic experts, specialists with a higher profile education.