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.
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.
This.... Different guns have different rifling characteristics......can maybe be narrowed down to a few but not pinned on one. Except for TxStetson.........
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?
Because the script writer said so. I love it when the script says it was a Glock and when they get the gun, it ain't a Glock. Sent by an idjit coffeeholic from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk
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.