This course will focus on the manufacture of tools to include firearm parts and the potential for subclass characteristics to exist on manufactured tool surfaces. The purpose of this course will be to provide the student with a basic understanding of the tool manufacturing process which is essential to the foundation of the ability of an examiner to make common source determinations.
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Ron Nichols

Ron is widely published with many publications routinely referenced in published court decisions with respect to Daubert and Frye evidentiary hearings. He is the author of Firearm and Toolmark Identification: The Scientific Reliability of the Forensic Science Discipline available through Academic Press and Building a Preventive Crime Gun Strategy available through Ultra Electronics Forensic Technology. He is a contributing author to other texts as well. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in communicating the scientific foundations of the firearm and tool mark discipline to both technical and lay audiences providing training and consultation nationally and internationally, including on behalf of the United Nations.