The FBI's Drug-Fire and the ATF's NIBIN Firearm Identification Systems

Compatibility: The FBI’s Drug-Fire and the ATF’s NIBIN firearm identification systems
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The FBI’s Drug-Fire and the ATF’s NIBIN firearm identification systems
The National Integrated Ballistics Information Network is a national agency that uses computer-assisted ballistics imaging systems. This agency was established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to ease identification of firearms. (Robert, Thompson, Martin and Budden, 2002). The National Integrated Ballistics Information Network is a useful system that aids forensic experts in identifying unique marks made by bullets when guns are fired. Similarly; the Federal Bureau of Investigations established a computerized system called drug fire. Initially, drug fire compared only marks on cartridge cases, later it expanded to compare marks on bullets (Robert, Thompson, Martin and Budden, 2002).
Both the state and local law enforcement agencies in the past used both systems because they contain different firearms records. However with time experts has seen the need to merge the two systems to reduce the accessibility process. The first ...