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Forensic Firearms Specialist
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- Utilizes specialized scientific principles and laboratory techniques to analyze, identify, and classify firearms, ammunition components, and related ballistics data.
- Bachelor's Degree in Forensic Science, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Biological/Physical Anthropology, Nursing or Forensic Nursing, or related science field.
- Related degrees must demonstrate completed undergraduate coursework in at least two (2) of the following: Forensics, Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Statistics, Human Anatomy, Physics, Chemistry, or Biological/Physical Anthropology OR Associate's degree in one of the concentrations/degrees listed above (with coursework as specified above); AND two (2) years' forensic experience OR High School diploma/GED AND four (4) years' forensic experience.
- Receive firearms and ammunition related component materials and other ballistic and physical evidence for examination and analysis for the purpose of preparing, preserving, collecting, and documenting for court presentation, such physical evidence as ballistic tests, fingerprints, fibers, blood, hair, bones, human tissues, biological fluids, trace evidence, paint, oil chemicals, glass, plastics, organic and soil elements, and gunshot and lead residues.
- Conduct the analytical examination and test fire discharging of evidentiary firearms exposing them to very loud noises and creating the potential for hazardous health-damaging exposure to heated combustion and vaporization of evidentiary biological hazardous fluids, as well as exposure to lead materials and other gunshot residue chemicals containing carcinogenic properties.
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