THE PROBLEMS OF APPLICATION OF FORENSIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CRIMES COMMITTED WITH THE USE OF FIREARMS
The article deals with the peculiarities of realization of a criminalistics approach to forensic examinations in the course of investigation of crimes committed with the use of firearms. The author states that criminalistics does not use many «reserves» of the effective application of special knowledge in the sphere of examination of firearms and their traces for successful detection and investigation of crimes. The article deals with the peculiarities of a forensic ballistic examination. They include, firstly, the objects to be examined: both gunshot bodily injuries and other injures connected with them e. g. damages of clothes. Secondly, the subject of a forensic ballistic examination which includes the direction of wound canals, types of firearms, ammunition identification etc. Such new tasks of a forensic ballistic examination make it difficult for forensic experts to obtain the results. The importance of the development of some tactical provisions for the interaction between investigators and experts in firearms cases has been noted. The provisions include the organization of interaction when a forensic examination is conducted by one expert and when it is conducted with the assistance of a ballistic expert. It is the investigator who is responsible for the organization of interaction in both cases.