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Range determination is used to establish the precise circumstances of a crime . The ballistic expert looks for gunpowder residue, tattooing on any wounds, the angle of impact and other factors to determine the placement of the gun when it went off. It's an imprecise analysis--relying on approximation rather than precision--but it can help officers understand what happened at the scene of a crime.

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