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Appellant asserts that the trial court should have at least precluded the experts from stating their conclusions with \u201cabsolute certainty excluding all other possible firearms.\u201d The government does not directly concede the point, but instead represents that the current policy of the United States Attorney’s Office \u201cis to have firearms experts qualify their conclusions \u2018to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty[.]\u2019 \u201d In light of the government’s representation and the growing consensus that firearms examiners should testify only to a reasonable degree of certainty, see note 8, supra, we will assume, without deciding, that such experts should not be permitted to testify that they are 100% certain of a match, to the exclusion of all other firearms.<\/p>\n

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