The FBI said it dropped the tests primarily because "neither scientists nor bullet manufacturers are able to definitively attest to the significance of an association made between bullets in the ...

The FBI has sometimes exaggerated the value of tests used to match metals in bullet fragments to other ammunition and does not have sufficient safeguards to ensure that the tests are conducted ...

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are measuring precisely the disintegration of "frangible" bullets when they strike a surface to better understand how the ...

WASHINGTON -- The FBI decided Thursday to stop tests that match bullets by lead content, a practice criticized as producing a high rate of false matches between crime scene bullets and bullets taken ...