Head Stamp Marking

Head stamp marking
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Head stamp Marking
A headstamp is the markings on the bottom of a cartridge case designed for a

firearm. It usually tells who manufactured the case. If it is a civilian case it often
also tells the caliber: if it is military, the year of manufacture is often added.
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Cartridges typically feature alphanumeric characters and/or symbols applied to the
base of cartridge cases, known as headstamps.
Headstamps often provide valuable information about the country of origin,
producer, year of production, calibre, or type of cartridge in question.
Some headstamps also include the lot or batch number of the cartridge.
The headstamp is most commonly applied to the cartridge case during the
manufacturing process.
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Case markings (other) Cartridge cases are sometimes marked in locations other
than the case head (that is, feature markings other than headstamps).
Markings on cartridge case walls often indicate special-purpose functional types,
such as grenade blanks and training rounds, but are also present on shotshells.
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Projectile colouration and markings Projectiles are variously marked and coloured, generally to
indicate their type or purpose.
Markings on certain commercial cartridges are for branding or marketing purposes. A wide
range of different projectiles with different marking schemes are available in common calibres.
It is worth noting the tip colours, as well as the variations in cannelures, sealants, jacket
materials, and projectile shapes.
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Bullets
There are no numbers on the bottom of any bullets.

The bottom of a 'cartridge case' is stamped to identify the arsenal if it's military
ammunition and to identify the manufacturer if it's commercial ammunition.

Commercial head stamps include the caliber and the name of the company that made
the ammo.
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Serial number restoration
Serial numbers became commonplace after the United States passed the Gun Control Act of 1968
.
This law mandated that all guns manufactured in or imported into the country have a serial
number.
Prior to 1968, many firearms either did not have a serial number or the serial numbers were not
unique and were reused by a manufacturer on multiple firearms.
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If a recovered weapon has had the serial numbers altered or destroyed, examiners can attempt to
recover the original numbers. The two main methods for the restoration of serial numbers are
magnetic particle inspection and chemical restoration
It is recommended that magnetic particle inspection be performed first due to the nondestructive
nature of the method
If magnetic particle inspection fails, chemical restoration is the next step in the forensic analysis.
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Striation databasing
Bullets and casings found at a scene require a known example to compare to in order to match
them to a weapon. Without a weapon, the striation pattern can be uploaded to a database such
as the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network (NIBIN) maintained by the ATF or the
United Kingdom's National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS).

Information uploaded to these databases can be used to track gun crimes and to link crimes
together.
Maintainers of these databases recommend that every recovered firearm be test fired and the
resulting known exemplar be uploaded into the database
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In the 1990s, there were two databases that were formed for storage of pictures of shell casings
and bullets in gun crimes. The first was the Drugfire system which was used by the FBI.

The second, the IBIS (Integrated Ballistic Identification System) was created by Forensic
Technology, Inc. and eventually bought by the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in 1993.
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The FBI and ATF realized that their systems would not work together, and they needed to find a
way to share information between them. The NIBIN board was created in 1997, in hopes of
creating one imaging system.
A year after the creation of the NIBIN board, both the ATF and FBI decided to put their
resources together toward one of the systems, and created the National Integrated Ballistics
Information Network, with IBIS as the system.[
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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Forensic_firearm_examination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld4hJmxP9Zk
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A headstamp is the markings on the bottom of a cartridge case designed for a

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There are no numbers on the bottom of any bullets.

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