National Firearms Examiner Academy Forensic Science Training
2008-DN-R-122
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2008
$500,000
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
Gun Violence (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
Provides statistics on firearm possession, theft and loss, and manufacture and export, as well as state-by-state data on firearm tracing.
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions - Lowell, District of Massachusetts (Case Study 6)
Date Published
February 2007
Agencies
BJA
National Firearms Examiner Academy Forensic Science Training
2008-DNR-122
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2008
$500,000
Development and Delivery of Knowledge-based Forensic Science Curricula
2013-DNR-4876
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$450,000
Second National Ballistics Imaging Comparison (NBIC-2)
Date Published
January 2015
Publication Type
Test/Measurement,
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Report (Annual/Periodic)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Juvenile Gun Violence and Gun Markets in Boston
Date Published
March 1997
Series
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
July 2014
Series
Bill King discusses the operations of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a program through which firearms examiners at state and local crime laboratories compare tool marks on fired bullets or cartridges found at a crime scene to digitized images of ballistic evidence in a nationwide database.
Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy
Matthew Barter
Title
Sergeant; 2018 NIJ LEADS Law Enforcement Officer
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN - Research for the Real World Seminar
Date Published
July 2014
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ
Study Identifies Ways To Improve ATF Ballistic Evidence Program
Date Published
October 2014
Series
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Director's Message: Statement on Support for Forensic Science Research: Improving the Scientific Role of NIJ
On behalf of the Office for Investigative and Forensic Sciences at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), I wish to thank the National...
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FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program
2015-CD-BX-0028
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2015
$118,357
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
Event Dates
–
Location
Online
Event Type
Seminar
Registration Status
Not Required
Series
Post-Blast Investigative Tools for Structural Forensics by 3D Scene Reconstruction and Advanced Simulation
2014-DN-BX-K004
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$274,012
Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) Feasibility and Guidance Study for Forensic DNA.
2014-DN-BX-K023
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$824,995
Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles
Date Published
2008
Publication Type
Report (Technical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Collaboration and Coordination for Technology Research and Development
Collaboration and coordination are core tenets of NIJ's science and technology investment strategy. Forming strategic partnerships with other agencies allows NIJ to leverage investments, avoid duplicating efforts and devote its resources to areas that offer the highest potential payoff for the criminal justice community.
NIJ shares responsibility with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security for providing tools and technology to deal with critical...
Evaluating Gun Violence as an Illicit Supply-and-Demand Marketplace
Date Published
May 28, 2010
New Approaches to Identifying Secondary Market Sources of Illegal Firearms
2007-IJ-CX-0030
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2007
$205,891