SA-ING, JERALD D.

SCORE:
CRIMIN 3 (1:00-3:30 TTH) 11/19/2019

PRINCIPLES OF IDENTIFICATION (SHELLS)

The breech face and striker of every single firearm leave microscopical individualities of
their own.
The firearm leaves its “fingerprints” or “thumb mark” on ever cartridges case which it
fires.
The whole principles of identification is based on the fact that since the breech face of
every weapon must be individually distinct, the cartridges cases which it fires are
imprinted with this individuality. The imprints on all cartridges cases fired from the
same weapon are always the same; those on cartridges cases fired from different
weapons are different.

TYPES OF PROBLEMS: There are six (6) types of problems in Forensic

ballistic, namely:

Type 1-Given bullets, to determine the caliber and type of firearm from which it was
fired.
Type 2-Given a fired cartridge case, to determine the caliber and type of firearm from
which it was fired.
Type 3-Given a bullet and a suspected firearm, to determine whether or not the bullet
was fired from the suspected firearm.
Type 4-Given a fired cartridge case and a suspected firearms, to determine whether or
not the cartridge case was fired from the suspected firearm.
Type 5-Given two or more bullets, to determine whether or not they were fired from
only one firearm.
Type 6-Given two or more cartridges cases, to determine whether or not they were
fired from only one firearm.