The official website of the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners. AFTE is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of one of the finest disciplines of Forensic Science......Firearm and Toolmark Identification.

The following paper was published in the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners Journal, 30th Anniversary Issue, Volume 31 Number 3, Summer 1999. Reprinted here with permission of the author, James E. Hamby. THE HISTORY OF FIREARM AND TOOLMARK IDENTIFICATION By: James E. Hamby, M.A., Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency, Indianapolis, IN 46204 and James W Thorpe, Ph.D., ...

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