• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The whole gun planting take seems like conspiratory nonsense to me. And I’ll trust the forensic science on the striations.

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      14 days ago

      It does seem weird to me that he would still have all the evidence on him in Middle-of-Nowhere PA, a couple days later, but I mostly just talk about that as a way to point out this is all still allegations

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        14 days ago

        Eh. He could have intended to use it again, or didn’t find an opportune time to ditch/destroy it. Or maybe he’s not the master People’s assassin that everyone wants him to be.

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      14 days ago

      I don’t have a source, but I’ve been hearing for a while now that there is a lot of pseudo science in matching barrels to bullets.

      Polygraphs ended up being pretty much complete bullshit and roadside drug tests are real bad about false positives.

      IDK, it’s basically a tool mark. I’ve looked at those under microscopes. They vary a whole lot when things are running well. I would think you could only really match something if there was a distinctive abnormal feature.