Tracing the guns used in a massacre

[Preacherman]

In the latest Sunday Times, London, there's a very long and interesting article about the efforts made to trace 29 FN-FAL rifles used by British paratroopers in the so-called "Bloody Sunday" shootings in 1972. It's a tale of mishaps, malfeasance and plain bloody stupidity, but a very interesting look at just how far investigators were prepared to go to find these weapons for a judicial inquiry. They were found in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Holland, the USA, and other places.

See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1721121,00.html for all the details. Interesting reading from a forensic/investigation point of view.

 

[RavenVT100]

How are they going to be able to get anything out of those rifles? Haven't they been fired and cleaned thousands of times since the incident?

 

[Rebar]

Seems like an attempt to blame the rifles, instead of those who used them.