(n) identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it, Syn. ballistic fingerprinting, bullet fingerprinting
(n) the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification, Syn. genetic fingerprinting
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