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FBI Subaward to the NIST project "Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components"

GRANT14110035-B

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$130,000

Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components

DJO-NIJ-25-RO-0001

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$389,657

Risk factors among handgun retailers for frequent and disproportionate sales of guns used in violent and firearm related crimes

Date Published

2005

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Success Story: Advancing 3D Virtual Microscopy for Firearm Forensics

Date Published

March 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Expanding the Scope and Efficiency of 3D Surface Topography Analysis in Firearm Forensics

Date Published

September 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Tracing and fingerprinting source material and printer of additively manufactured weapons and objects

2020-DQ-BX-0029

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$270,000

Federal Legislation and Gun Markets: How Much Have Recent Reforms of the Federal Firearms Licensing System Reduced Criminal Gun Suppliers

Date Published

2002

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Focused Deterrence in New Orleans: A Documentation of Changes in Homicides and Firearm Recoveries

Date Published

October 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Opening the Black Box of NIBIN

July 2014

Series

Research for the Real World

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.

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Homicide in the United States

June 2009

The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.

Infrared Thermal Imaging for Use in Restoration of Defaced Serial Numbers

Date Published

October 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Applied Research, Development, and Method Validation of Toolmark Imaging, Virtual Casing Comparison, and In-Lab Verification using a GelSight-Based Three Dimensional Imaging and Analysis System for Firearm Forensics

Date Published

February 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Forensic Technology Center of Excellence: Validation and Evaluation of Magneto-Optical Imaging Technology for Recovering Obliterated Serial Numbers in Firearms

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Test/Measurement, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Magneto-Optical Sensors Bring Obliterated Serial Numbers Back to Life

Date Published

May 2015

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Test/Measurement, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ

Applied Research and Development of a Three-Dimensional Topography System for Imaging and Analysis of Striated and Impressed Tool Marks for Firearm Identification using GelSight

Date Published

January 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Applied Research and Development of a Three-Dimensional Topography System for Firearm Identification Using GelSight

Date Published

January 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Consecutive and Random Manufactured Semi-Automatic Pistol Breech Face and Fired Cartridge Case Evaluations

Date Published

January 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Empirical Study to Improve the Scientific Foundation of Forensic Firearm and Tool Mark Identification Utilizing Consecutively Manufactured Glock EBIS Barrels

Date Published

December 2013

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Firearms and Violence in American Life

Date Published

January 1969

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles

Date Published

2008

Publication Type

Report (Technical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Empirical Study To Improve the Scientific Foundation of Forensic Firearm and Tool Mark Identification Utilizing 10 Consecutively Manufactured Slides, Final Report

Date Published

2011

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire

Date Published

September 2001

Series

NIJ Research Report

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

PSN Academy: Provision of Research-Based Training and Technical Assistance to Project Safe Neighborhoods (Year Three Supplement)

2002-GP-CX-1003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005

$1,199,998

Strategic Disruption of Firearms Markets: An Evaluation of the Utility of ATF's Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative (Supplement for Extended Analysis)

2001-IJ-CX-0028

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2004

$249,877

Strategic Approaches to Reducing Firearms Violence: Final Report on the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership

Date Published

October 2003

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored