Oct. 16 -- One way investigators have been able to link the string of shootings in the Washington, D.C., area is by analyzing the slugs that felled the victims. Here's an explanation of the technique, ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 17 -- Washington, D.C., is a town on the verge of a nervous breakdown, harried citizens deliberating the life-and-death merits of food shopping, buying gas and ferrying the ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) – In the fight against gun violence, law enforcement agencies across East Alabama now have instant access to trace a firearm’s ballistic fingerprint nationwide. This information ...

Sen. Charles E. Schumer called on President Bush to implement a national program to require that ballistic fingerprinting data be kept on firearms, during a news conference at the Buffalo Police ...

For more than 70 years, ballistic evidence has helped police and prosecutors find firearms used in crimes. Yet despite its widespread acceptance as a law enforcement tool, the forensic science ...

The rash of sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area has, not surprisingly, renewed a debate over whether the government should set up a nationwide database of ballistic fingerprints to track ...

Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is considering a plan to require gunmakers to record the ballistic fingerprints of some high-powered rifles sold in Maryland, a dramatic expansion of a program that ...

Maryland State Police offered yesterday to take on the task of creating "ballistic fingerprints" for new handguns sold under the state's first-in-the-nation safety law, temporarily relieving gun ...

IN THE ANNALS of rank opportunism, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Atherton, deserves a special place. All hail her efforts to exploit the Beltway-sniper killings by pushing a bad "ballistic fingerprinting" bill.