FOID 2216EL

This course provides Forensic Identification Officers or Forensic Science students sufficient firearms knowledge to identify and provide fundamental interpretive firearms evidence at a shooting incident, while recognizing the significance and limitations of that evidence. Exterior and terminal ballistics, emphasizing bullet impact damage assessment and bullet path analysis, are the primary objectives of the course. Understanding the capabilities of the Forensic Laboratory Firearms discipline and recognizing how on-site action impacts subsequent analysis are also addressed. Lec. 3, 3 cr