A firearms display at the North Carolina State Crime Lab in Raleigh, pictured on Feb. 10, 2026. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)
The North Carolina State Crime Lab has generated 10,000 investigative leads through a national firearm matching database, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Tuesday.
“This milestone is a testament to how hard our analysts at the Crime Lab work to help law enforcement solve crimes and make our state safer,” Jackson told members of the media at the State Crime Lab in Raleigh. “I’m grateful for our team’s hard work, and for the committed partnership of ATF and local law enforcement.”
Attorney General Jeff Jackson fires a round into a vertical shooting tank at the State Crime Lab in Raleigh on Feb. 10, 2026. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)North Carolina became just the eighth location in the country to join the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network in 1994, and has since contributed tens of thousands of pieces of ballistic evidence. Now, there are more than 500 locations in the network, which is administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
Because every gun leaves a unique imprint on the rounds it fires, matches can be used to place the same person at the location of multiple crimes.
“When you take the shell casing and you input it into the system, it does a digital scan of the shell casing,” Jackson said in an interview. “It does a digital fingerprint for it and then compares it to any other similar rounds.”
Jackson cited a recent case in New Hanover County in which Wilmington man Johnathan Casey Rashad Burgess was sentenced to life in prison over the shooting of a 25-year-old woman. The lab was able to match the casing of the fatal round to another found in Burgess’ bedside table, he said, as well as to the firearm recovered from his bedroom.
“They’ve clearly set the standard on how this system can be used to fight violent crime and we’re proud to recognize their continued success,” ATF Special Agent in Charge Alicia Jones said of the Crime Lab.
The State Crime Lab, with locations in Raleigh, Edneyville, and Greensboro, is the busiest ballistic information site in the state. In the past fiscal year, it processed nearly 40,000 case records across drug chemistry, toxicology, forensic biology, firearms, and other evidence categories.
“This is an example of how digital tools are being more and more incorporated into law enforcement,” Jackson said. “At the core of this technology, an algorithm is being used to create these matches. The stronger that digital technology gets, the more finely grained the digital assessment can get.”
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