ABSTRACT
The term Ballistics expert is a term not often used or referred to by the forensic firearms examiner. This term is used by: Counsel when calling on ballistics expert opinion evidence; investigating police; media groups or loosely coined by laymen. The objection to the term, by the forensic firearms examiner, is that it attracts connotations that the ballistics expert immediately knows everything about all arms and all ammunition. This, of course, is a ridiculous assumption, but by the time the forensic firearms examiner presents evidence, about a particular matter in court, s/he will know everything possible about the exhibits presented and their performance. Most forensic ballistics practitioners would prefer to be called forensic firearms examiners, and rightly so.
