Ballistics Quotes

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em.

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.

Everyone is doing forensics.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.