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In 1999, ATF established and began administration of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN). In this program, ATF administers automated ballistic imaging technology for NIBIN Partners in the United States that have entered into a formal agreement with ATF to enter ballistic information into NIBIN. Partners use Integrated Ballistic Identification Systems (IBIS) to acquire digital images of the markings made on fired cartridge cases and bullets recovered from a crime scene or a crime gun test fire and then compare those images (in a matter of hours) against earlier NIBIN entries via electronic image comparison. If a high-confidence candidate for a match emerges, firearms examiners compare the original evidence with a microscope to confirm the match or NIBIN hit. By searching in an automated environment either locally, regionally, or nationally, NIBIN Partners are able to discover links between crimes more quickly, including links that would never have been identified absent the technology.
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resulting in an injury; a shooting at a party resulting in one fatality and five injured victims; and a shooting at a business resulting in one fatality and three injured victims. Subsequently, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested two suspects for unlawful possession of three firearms. Using NIBIN, Los Angeles Police Department was able to link one of the firearms (a 9mm pistol) to all five shootings. Both arrestees were convicted and sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. The Chicago Police Department responded to the homicide of a 19-year-old factory worker who was killed when a bullet fired from a passing car into a neighborhood crowd struck him in the head. Eight years later, the Chicago Police Department conducted a traffic stop for an ordinance violation, and arrested the driver for unlawful possession of a firearm. Using NIBIN, the Illinois State Police-Chicago was able to link the firearm to the murder. ATF and the Chicago Police Department investigated the recovery of the firearm and determined that the firearm had been purchased by a straw purchaser one day prior to the murder. The purchaser had transferred the firearm to the shooter, and the shooter then sold the firearm shortly after the murder. In November 2007, the shooter, a felon and enforcer for a Chicago-based street gang, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. Read more NIBIN success stories
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