Federal agencies and tribe partner to clear Pine Ridge Reservation’s ballistics testing backlog

By: John Hult

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: June 16, 2026

Words: 965

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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RAPID CITY — Federal law enforcement agencies and the Oglala Sioux Tribe have partnered to add the ammunition casing signatures of more than 500 firearms seized in criminal investigations on the Pine Ridge Reservation into a federal weapons database.

In clearing the backlog of untested firearms, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Dakota hopes to find clues in unsolved cases on the reservation.

Every entry in the database could help move investigations …

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