The Ballistic Identification Number System™

The BIN system will be a perfect adjunct to the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the national automated fingerprint identification and criminal history system maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The combination of a suspects’ fingerprint found at a crime scene, and a BIN number that is linked to the same suspect, reduces the possibility of mere casual contact with the crime scene, and reduces reasonable doubt at trial.

The BIN number a bullet found at a crime scene could fill the evidence gap created if no DNA is found at the scene.

The name of the purchaser alone would give more than probable cause for taking a closer look at that individual.

The BIN Number and Forensic Science

Today, if a bullet is recovered at a crime scene and there is no shooter holding a smoking gun, all the forensic scientists have is a spent bullet. If they are lucky enough to find a gun, and fire test rounds, they can confirm if the recovered round did or did not come from that gun but not much more.

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A Giant Step Forward In Forensic Science

The art of ballistic science has taken great leaps forward in the area of magnification and spectrum analysis, but all the magnification in the world will not give a name to interview.Cold case evidence lockers are full of guns and bullets tied to the names of the victims but no suspect.

With the Ballistic Identification Number system; if a hunters rifle round ends up in the wall of a farmhouse, or if one of the .45 cal. rounds from the above box of bullets with the BIN number 3^W%b7! is found at a crime scene, the forensic team will not be able to say who pulled the trigger, but they will know within seconds of entering the BIN number into the BIN/BLI database who the purchaser of that bullet was.