ELI5.How forensic analysts match a bullet to a gun?

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How do ballistics/forensic analysts match a bullet from a victim or found on the scene to the EXACT gun that fired it?? I mean a 9mm bullet can be loaded into any 9mm firearm right? So how do they know exactly which gun that fired it? How do they match it?

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[Comparison microscope.](https://youtu.be/WGHCTMTh7TE?t=154)

It’s not only the bullet, any ejected cartridge cases can be matched with another case that had been fired by the same firearm.

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