bullet casing
Cartridge's metal sleeve
A bullet casing is the metal shell that holds a bullet, propellant, and primer together as a single cartridge.
After firing, the casing is ejected from the gun.
Investigators collect casings at crime scenes to match them to specific weapons: Police found three bullet casings near the body.
Also called a shell casing or brass.
- shellHard outer covering
- brassCopper-zinc metal mixture
- cartridgeSealed container for supplies
- ammoProjectiles for firearms
- gunpowderCombustible propellant mixture
ejected · spent · chamber · firing pin · rifle · pistol · hollow · caliber · forensic · ballistics · crime lab · magazine · reload · gun range · copper · cylinder · rimfire · discharge
- evidenceevidence, evidence bag, circumstantial evidence, proof, admissible
- casingscartridge case, case, enclosure, sheath, sleeve
- Crime Scenecrime scene, evidence marker, evidence bag, evidence bags, crime tape
- silverwarecutlery, flatware, fork, knife, spoon
- shellsseashells, sea shells, shell, clam, oyster
- investigation gearfingerprint kit, evidence bags, evidence bag, evidence marker, magnifier
cartridge components
bullet casingbullet
Fired metal projectile
projectile · slug · round · warhead · payload
ammunition component
bullet casingbullet
Fired metal projectile
projectile · slug · round nose · hollow point · primer