AFTE Store - Firearm and Toolmark Identification- Meeting the Daubert Challenge

This artricle was written to enhance the awareness of firearms/toolmark examiners to the standards of admissability of firearms/toolmark evidence and the potential challenges they may face in the court today. It it s the authors’ intention to present a strong argument for the proposition that the identification of straited toolmarks in the firearms/toolmark field is a science and, as such, fulfills all the criteria for admissability of scientific evidence set by federal statutes, case law, and the laws of the those states which explicitly or implicitly follow Daubert.