• ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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    21 days ago

    Probably just means the bullet was too mangled to get a conclusive read. Remember, his roommate immediately snitched on him and leaked all his messages, and his own family reported him.

    It would be amazing if he gets acquitted though. Only Candace would give a shit.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        21 days ago

        Oh, so like how DNA testing is quite flawed, or lie detecting or body language analysis...

        I'm starting to think that the police don't actually know what they're doing and rely on snitches to do their job for them.

      • Carl [he/him]
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        21 days ago

        huh I thought guns had, like, microscopic "signatures" or serial numbers on the firing pin for some reason

        • livestreamedcollapse@lemmy.ml
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          21 days ago

          California uses the technical feasibility of microstamping serial numbers onto a firing pin so as to require any new handguns added to the state's "roster of safe handguns" have such a firing pin. The 25 micron relief of the stamping can be sanded off in like a minute so the tech is really just a de facto ban on any new designs being legally sold in the state

          • Carl [he/him]
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            21 days ago

            Hmm, that's only on the brass though, I guess marking the bullet would be significantly harder

            • livestreamedcollapse@lemmy.ml
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              21 days ago

              Oh I meant sanding the die off of the firing pin so it doesn't stamp a serial number onto the casings; the projectile gets marked by the rifling upon firing. Wakmrow posted an article above about how the rifling analysis is subjective, unrepeatable pseudoscience but I don't think it mentions that polygonal rifling is distinguishable from traditional land & groove rifling. So if a defendant is caught with, say, a glock, finding polygonal rifling on recovered bullets would make such analysis more damning in that case.

    • moss_icon [any, comrade/them]
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      21 days ago

      Yeah I don’t think this is like Luigi Mangione where there is very real doubts as to whether he’s the real shooter. It’s looking pretty damning for Tyler Robinson.