Silencer/ bullet marking question

[LACamper]

Can LEO determine if a recovered bullet was fired through a silencer? Does it change the rifling marks or leave a different amount of powder residue on the base, etc?

 

[Bearco]

The bullet should not hit the baffles in any way, so it should not make any marks. I'm using logic, but someone else probably knows more than I.

 

[LACamper]

I wasn't even thinking of it hitting the baffles! I was thinking of the burning powder and gasses being able to flow ahead of the bullet inside the silencer and leaving residue in the marks from the lands and grooves.

I was watching a tv show recently (csi, ncis, bones, etc.) and they looked at a bullet taken from a corpse in a microscope and announced that it had been fired through a silencer. Just wondering if this was possible.

 

[charlie12]

A question for LSP972

 

[Cornbread504]

i have wondered this same thing for a while, would be interested to know

 

[Bearco]

That would make sense.

 

[madmax4x4]

Can LEO determine if a recovered bullet was fired through a silencer? Does it change the rifling marks or leave a different amount of powder residue on the base, etc?

. The extra rifling marks they talk about on TV only come from half ass home build integrally suppressed guns. When some guy drills a ton of holes down his barrel and puts the can over it. The bad drill job is what put the marks on. A good can will not. Not even a old can with wipes marks puts more rifling marks on. But yea it's TV.

 

[sonanth]

Possible residue from an ablative medium used in the can found on bullet ? I don't believe there is a way to tell just from bullet alone.

 

[slogoat]

If anything, I would think less gas would get ahead of the bullet out of a suppressor. The can slows the gas down, not the bullet. (in a baffle strike free world)

 

[LACamper]

Thanks LSP for the input. Its just been bugging me....

 

[SirIsaacNewton]

Another movie myth glad you asked the question LACamper and thanks for the response LSP.

 

[12secHemi]

On TV they can get DNA results back the same day!

 

[madmax4x4]

On TV they can get DNA results back the same day!

 

[topgunz1]

on TV there is also semen EVERYWHERE

 

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