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Noun: ballistic identification
  1. 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
    - ballistic fingerprinting, bullet fingerprinting

Derived forms: ballistic identifications

Type of: ident [informal], identification