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    Just watched new season premiere of "Ray Donovan", and it reminded me of something, because it happened on the show.
    Can the police recover a bullet, and tell what type of gun it was fired out of?
    This recovered bullet was supposedly fired out of a Taurus.

    I've seen it done on several shows.
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    Just watched new season premiere of "Ray Donovan", and it reminded me of something, because it happened on the show.
    Can the police recover a bullet, and tell what type of gun it was fired out of?
    This recovered bullet was supposedly fired out of a Taurus.

    I've seen it done on several shows.
    I guess if the rifling in the barrel was all jagged and deformed the bullet, they'd know it was a Taurus or a rossi.
     

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    A Glock has a different type of rifling than a S&W. There may be other distinctive characteristics in other brands. So the answer to your question is...maybe.
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    Different guns have different rifling characteristics......can maybe be narrowed down to a few but not pinned on one.

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    A Glock has a different type of rifling than a S&W. There may be other distinctive characteristics in other brands. So the answer to your question is...maybe.

    Yes, that is true.

    One show where I heard it mentioned, they stated that the bullet was fired from a Glock 19.
    How would they know that it wasn't fired from a Glock 17, or even a Glock 26?
     

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    There was an article a while back, don't remember the publication, where the owner of Hi-Point firearms talked about marking the rifling in a way as to put a "Signature" that was specific to that pistol. Or maybe it was just the brand, I don't remember exactly.

    ETA: I believe it, the article, was discussed here as well, at some point.
     

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    You can likely determine a few things. Caliber and twist rate are pretty much a given, if enough of the jacket or slug are recovered. It's possible that the bullet manufacturer could be determined. Not much else I'd give credence to if I was a juror.
     

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    The only reason I can think of is if it matches ballistics to a gun they already have ballistics records for. Isn't that how they determine if the same gun was used in multiple crimes? Not sure.

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    The only reason I can think of is if it matches ballistics to a gun they already have ballistics records for. Isn't that how they determine if the same gun was used in multiple crimes? Not sure.

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    This is done, but not what I'm referring to.

    They are finding a bullet, examining it, then determining what brand (and sometimes specific model) gun fired it.
     

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    Kind of like they can determine shoe tread and tire tread and isolate it to a specific perp?

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    This is done, but not what I'm referring to.

    They are finding a bullet, examining it, then determining what brand (and sometimes specific model) gun fired it.
    Do you believe everything else you see on TV? Next your going to tell me all the shit they say on the news is true too. The barrel doesn't tattoo that info on the bullet, so I just don't see how that could be possible.
     
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