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An Investigation into Whether or Not the Class and Individual Characteristics of Five Turkish Manufactured Pistols Change During Extensive Firing
Author(s) -
Sarıbey Aylin Yalçın,
Hannam Abigail Grace,
Tarımcı Çelik
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01107.x
Subject(s) - turkish , class (philosophy) , forensic engineering , engineering , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics
In order to assess whether or not the class and individual characteristics of a firearm change over time, five different makes of Turkish self‐loading pistol were tested and were each fired a large number of times. The class and individual characteristics were identified for each pistol and the first fired cartridge case was compared with the subsequent consecutive 250th fired cases for each pistol. It was found that there were slight changes in some of the individual and class characteristics; however, this was not statistically significant and did not affect the ability of the firearms examiner to match the first fired case to the last fired case for each firearm tested.