Firearms and Ammunition

Question 1

What is the GST?

Answer 1

gang suppression team

Question 2

How was GST used in edmonton?

Answer 2

seisure of guns and ammunitions they blockaded a vehicle

Question 3

In accordance of what act does the CFP program work?

Answer 3

Firearms act

Question 4

what is the CFP?

Answer 4

canadian firearms program

Question 5

what does the CFP oversee?

Answer 5

oversees firearms, licences and registration

Question 6

what does the CFP maintain?

Answer 6

firearm safety training standards, assists law enforcement agenscies, and aims to enhance public safety

Question 7

what part of the criminal code regulates firearms?

Answer 7

part III

Question 8

T/F: an antique firearm is not a firearm.

Answer 8

true

Question 9

what is not a firearm?

Answer 9

antique firearms
devices designed exclusively for:
- signalling
- notifying of distress
- firing blank cartridges
- firing stud cartridges
- explosive-driven rivets
shooting device designed exclusively for:
- slaughtering domestic animals
- tranquilizing animals

Question 10

What is a firearm?

Answer 10

A barelled weapon that discharges projectiles capable of causing bodily harm or death

Question 11

T/F: a firearm can be anything that is adapted to fire projectiles.

Answer 11

true

Question 12

what are the three classes of firearms?

Answer 12

non-restricted
restricted
prohibited

Question 13

what are non-restricted firearms?

Answer 13

any rifle, or shotgun that is neither restricted nor prohibited

Question 14

A restricted firearm has a barrel less than ___ mm in length.

Answer 14

470

Question 15

what is a restricted firearm?

Answer 15

handguns that are not prohibited firearms

Question 16

handguns with barrels equal or less than what is prohibited?

Answer 16

105 mm

Question 17

prohibited handguns discharge what calibre cartridge?

Answer 17

25 or 32

Question 18

how do rifles and shotguns become prohibited?

Answer 18

when they are adapted by sawing, cutting or any other alteration

Question 19

what specific firearm is prohibited?

Answer 19

automatic

Question 19

What kind of characteristics are level 1?

Answer 19

class

Question 20

Level 1 characteristics are defined as what?

Answer 20

common features that are shared by a specific sub-group of the entire population

Question 21

how are ammunition components first assessed?

Answer 21

based on class characteristics

Question 22

what are examples of class characteristics?

Answer 22

• number
• width and direction of land and groove impressions,
• calibre,
• shape of firing pin,

Question 23

what are level 2 details?

Answer 23

individual characteristics

Question 24

how do you define level 2 characteristics?

Answer 24

imperfections or irregularities that are produced accidentaly and randomly during manufacture

Question 25

how do individual marks appear?

Answer 25

during manufacturing process and also a result of use, abuse, corrosion, rust and wear

Question 26

How do you compare cartridges?

Answer 26

by their microscopic marks

Question 27

how do cartridges get marks?

Answer 27

when they are fires or cycled through the firearm causing contact and marks

Question 28

T/F: just by loading a cartridge into a gun you will have unique marks

Answer 28

true

Question 29

the raised spots on a rifle barrel are called what?

Answer 29

lands

Question 30

the recessed spots on a rifle barrel are called what?

Answer 30

grooves

Question 31

what is the difference in manufacturing of rifles and handguns to shotguns?

Answer 31

they have rifling

Question 32

What does CIBIN mean? Who maintains it?

Answer 32

Canadian integrated ballistics identification network, maintained by the RCMP

Question 33

What does IBIS mean? Who maintains it?

Answer 33

Integrated ballistics identification system, there is a national server in Ottawa

Question 34

What does NIBIN mean? Who maintains it?

Answer 34

National integrated ballistics information network, United States

Question 35

What is the GRC file? Who created it?

Answer 35

this is a searchable database listing firearm amkes and model class characteristics, created by FBI

Question 36

what does weapon sanitization mean?

Answer 36

removing the serial numbers

Question 37

what is the Lawrence case?

Answer 37

two Lawrence men tried to melt a gun in the microwave causing an explosion, police found a firearm with obliterated serial number

Question 38

tampering with a firearm is covered under which section of the criminal code?

Answer 38

108

Question 39

what is the punishment for tampering with a firearm?

Answer 39

imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years

Question 40

A 3D printed weapon is referred to as what?

Answer 40

ghost gun

Question 41

What happened in the Luigi Mangione case?

Answer 41

he 3D printed a pistol and shot the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Question 42

T/F: privately manufactured firearms with anonymous origins can sometimes be traced back to the owner.

Answer 42

false, thse are completely anonymous and therefore untraceable.

Question 43

how many 3D printed firearms were seized in 2022?

Answer 43

100

Question 44

Define identification (interpretation of firearms)

Answer 44

the ammunition components were fired by the questioned/same firearm

Question 45

T/F: to identify ammunition there must be an agreement in class and individual characteristics.

Answer 45

true

Question 46

What is the false identification rate of bullets?

Answer 46

0.6%

Question 47

What is the false identification rate of cartridge casings?

Answer 47

0.9%

Question 48

Define inconclusive (interpretation of firearms)

Answer 48

ammunition components can neither be identified nor eliminated as having been fired from the same firearm

Question 49

What was the main contributer to inconclusive results in firearm examination? what percentage?

Answer 49

bullets at ~60%

Question 50

Define elimination (interpretation of firearms)

Answer 50

the ammunition components were not fired by the same firearm

Question 51

what is the percentage of false elimination rates relating to bullets?

Answer 51

2.8%

Question 52

what is the percentage of false elimination rates relating to cartridge casings?

Answer 52

1.8%

Question 53

What was the problem with R v. Perez?

Answer 53

false identification rates

Question 54

What happened during the first warrent of R v. Perez?

Answer 54

found a bullet hole in the bumper but not the actual bullet

Question 55

What happened during the second warrent of R v. Perez?

Answer 55

they found a bullet and found the loaded 9mm handgun in the glove box with the bullet on the floor of the trunk

Question 56

what is a common occurance in shooting incidents?

Answer 56

bullet ricochet

Question 57

what contributes to ricochet?

Answer 57

surface type, reaction, bullet angle of incidence, bullet type, shape and construction, and impact velocity

Question 58

what was the study with bullet ricochet?

Answer 58

empirical investigation of the behaviour of luger bullets on glazed ceramic wall and floor tiles.

Question 59

T/F: angles of incidents between 5 and 7 differe greatly from eachother for mean ricochet angle.

Answer 59

false, they are almost the same

Question 60

when is a ricochet bullet almost intact fully

Answer 60

at high mean ricochet angles

Question 61

what does low mean ricochet angle lead to?

Answer 61

deformed bullets

Question 62

what are caterpillar marks?

Answer 62

these are when the bullet slides along the surface of a tile causing marks

Question 63

when are caterpillar marks larger?

Answer 63

at higher angles of incidence

Question 64

what tissue does bullet design effect?

Answer 64

soft tissue

Question 65

T/F: large and small caliber bullets have the same effect on the wound

Answer 65

false, the larger will be extremely similar but large to small will be very different

Question 66

T/F: firing a gun will cause lipid degredation

Answer 66

no, this was not proven.