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PHOENIX — A second independent ballistics test can’t prove the gun belonging to the only man suspected in a series of Phoenix freeway shootings last year was used in the crimes. Lawyers for Leslie ...

A New York State Police forensics expert testified on Wednesday that Kevin Monahan’s gun is not defective, but admitted that she had to perform one of the tests again because she could not be sure ...

Police in Washington are sometimes waiting over a year for the state to test firearms evidence, as the Washington State Patrol deals with a growing backlog. For the past four years, the state patrol’s ...