Table of Contents

Disc 1

• AFTE 2012 Training Seminar Announcement - Justine Kreso, Onondaga County Center for Forensic Sciences - Syracuse, NY & Jennifer Coombs, Erie County Central Police Services Laboratory - Buffalo, NY
• What's New in Ammunition - George Kass, Forensic Ammunition Service, Inc. – Okemos, MI
• SWGGUN - Updates and Current Projects - T.L. Price, Kansas Bureau of Investigation - Topeka, KS
• An Empirical Study to Evaluate the Repeatability and Uniqueness of Striations/Impressions in Fired Cartridge Casings Fired in Ten Consecutively Manufactured Slides - Thomas Fadul & Gabriel Hernandez, Miami-Dade Police Department - Miami, FL
• Utilizing the Consistency of Wad Drop Off for Estimation of Shooter Location - Jennifer Bishop, University of Central Oklahoma: Forensic Science Institute - Edmond, OK
• The 10 Consecutive Ruger Barrel Study: A 3D Look Using the PLu-neox from Sensofar - Derrick McClarin, Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences - Birmingham, AL
• Understanding Airsoft - Dan Alessio, Oregon State Police, Portland Metro Forensic Laboratory - Portland, OR
• Five Consecutively Manufactured Chisels - Gerard Petillo, Connecticut Department of Public Safety - Meriden, CT
• Confocal Microscopy and Striated Tool Marks: A Statistical Study and Potential Software Tools for Examiners - Nick Petraco, John Jay College – New York, NY
• The Examination, Evaluation and Identification of 9mm Caliber Cartridges Cases Fired from 1275+ GLOCK Semiautomatic Pistols Manufactured Over an 18 Year Period - Dr. James Hamby, International Forensic Science Laboratory - Indianapolis, IN
• The Evaluation, Examination and Identification of 2,150+ Pairs of Fired Cartridge Cases Fired from Recently Manufactured GLOCK Semiautomatic Pistols - Over a 4.5 Year Period in Calibers 9mm, 357 SIG, 40 S&W, 10mm Auto, 45 GAP and 45 ACP Using Firing Pin Aperture, Firing Pin Impression and Firing Pin Drag Marks - Steve Norris, Wyoming State Crime Laboratory - Cheyenne, WY
• AFTE Digital Reference Collection (DRC) Committee Update - David Wright, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas City, KS

Disc 2

• St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Lt. Michael Kline, Berrien County Sheriff's Department - St. Joseph, MI
• Chamber Throat Marks on Bullets and Their Significance in Rifling Marks - Nancy McCombs, California DOJ-Fresno - Fresno, CA
• Theory of Marking Reproducibility - Tsuneo Uchiyama, (Retired) National Research Institute of Police Science - Kashiwa, Japan
• Similar Tools, Different Marks: The Identification of a Pry Bar and Crowbar to Two Sets of Marks at a Crime Scene - Erica Lawton-McWhite, Broward County Sheriff's Office - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• The Persistence of Chamber Marks Over 1,440 Firings of Two Semiautomatic Pistols - April Stowe, Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences - Dallas, TX
• Pistol Barrel Discrimination: A Numerical Analysis - Rachel Bolton-King, Nottingham Trent University - Nottingham, England
• Utilizing IBIS BULLETTRAX-3D's Sensor Capturing Technology to Examine Seating Marks on Fired Bullets - Deion Christophe, Oklahoma City Police Department - Oklahoma City, OK
• Our Experience in Building a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) - Pavel Giverts, Israel Police Department – Israel
• Infrared Imaging and Flashcorrelation: Achieving the Goal - John H. Dillon Jr., Independent Examiner - Manassas, VA

Disc 3

• Technology Associated with Infrared Imaging of Cartridge Cases and Bullets and the Quantification of Comparison - Dr. Francine Prokoski, SED Technology, LLC - Fairfax, VA
• FAID2009: Proficiency Test and Workshop - Petra Pauw-Vugts, Netherlands Forensic Institute - Ypenburg, Netherlands
• ASTM 1351-01 Method: Non-Destructive to Harvest and Analyses of Evidence on Firearms - Fred Schmidt, Independent Forensic Investigator – Aurora, IL
• The Use of Advanced 3D Imaging System in Firearms Identification - Rocky Edwards, Santa Ana Police Department - Santa Ana, CA
• Mirror Effect - Evan Thompson, Arizona DPS Northern Regional Laboratory - Flagstaff, AZ
• Virtual Manipulative Tools for Tool Mark Characterization - Dr. Song Zhang, Iowa State University - Ames, IA
• Investigating GSR Patterns using milli-X-Ray Fluorescence Techniques - Rüdiger Schumacher, Forensic Science Institute of the Bundeskriminalamt - Wiesbaden, Germany
• Chamber Marks - A Bridge Linking Application of CMS from Striated Tool Mark to Impressed Tool Mark - Beta Tam, Independent Examiner - Hong Kong
• An Introduction to the FMK Firearms model 9C1B Pistol - April Wong, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - Los Angeles, CA
• Don't Slip Up on the Slippage - Manuel Muñoz, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - Los Angeles, CA
• An Introduction of the Forensic Science Society Firearms Diploma - Alice Walters, Metropolitan Police Service - London, England

Disc 4

• Correlation Algorithm of Conventional and EBIS Polygonal Bullets - Dr. Danny Roberge, Forensic Technology, Inc. - Montreal, Canada
• A Fatal SKS Incident - Lucien C. Haag, Independent Examiner - Carefree, AZ
• Bullets That Aren't: Their Physical Characteristics and Their Exterior Ballistics Properties - Lucien C. Haag, Independent Examiner - Carefree, AZ
• Shooting Dynamics: Elements of Time & Movement in Shooting Incidents - Alexander Jason, Independent Crime Scene Analyst - Pinole, CA
• Bullet Signature Identification Using Topography Measurements and Correlations: The Unification of Microscope and Mathematical Comparisons - Wei Chu, John Song, Robert Thompson, NIST - Gaithersburg, MD
• Cartridge Case Signature Identification Using Topography Measurements and Correlations: Unification of Microscope and Mathematical Comparisons - Alan Zheng, Robert Thompson, NIST - Gaithersburg, MD
• Understanding the Legislative Process as it Relate to the Forensic Reform - Amy Driver, Independent Consultant - Washington, D.C.
• Forensic Examination in Grenade Launchers: Do They Leave Marks Sufficient Enough for Comparison Tests? - Nick Tsiatis, Hellenic Police Department - Athens, Greece
• Why a Bullet Doesn't Behave Like a Rubber Ball - Ricochet on a Hard Surface - Thomas Liebsher, Forensic Science Institute of the Bundeskriminalamt - Wiesbaden, Germany
• AFTE History - Charles Meyers, 2nd President of AFTE (1970-1971)