The Washington State Patrol (WSP) Crime Laboratory Division (CLD) is currently addressing challenges that have led to a backlog of over a year for firearm forensics. Firearm forensics, or forensic ...

The Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory has suspended some firearms forensics after discovering an issue with gun evidence in an ongoing murder case. State officials halted the work — known as ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A whole year could pass before the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation processes firearms evidence recovered at a crime scene in Tennessee. Despite recent efforts to reduce ...

VIDEO: Jill Therriault, a Criminalist 2 firearm and toolmark examiner who works in the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory, takes the stand at the Logan Clegg trial. NOTE: Descriptions used ...

CHARLOTTE — Channel 9 got new insight into the extensive investigation underway as law enforcement searches for answers in last week’s ambush attack. Channel 9′s veteran crime reporter Glenn Counts ...

Forensic scientists have long regarded fingerprints on fired bullet casings as a lost cause. The extreme heat and pressure inside a gun barrel typically destroy the delicate residues that powders and ...

It’s the forensic analysis after every shooting that helps investigators build their criminal cases and a database that stands 42,000 forensic images strong of Connecticut’s shootings. “It’s looking ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — Colonie Police say they’re seeing a rise seeing a rise in illegal gun seizures - at least double what they would normally see by this time in a year. Lt. Bob Winn of the Colonie ...

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering firearm and toolmark analysis, the forensic discipline used in the investigation of gun ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Forensic experts are working to determine if the shotgun found in Jake Patterson's Gordon, Wisconsin, home was the one used to fatally shoot Jayme Closs' parents. The Bureau of ...

A firearms and toolmarks examiner was certified as an expert witness in the trial for a 2015 double murder. Robert Shem, a firearms examiner formerly with the Alaska Crime Laboratory in Anchorage, ...