The chemical analysis of bullets has been used to convict suspects in many cases, and has even been used as the sole piece of physical evidence that connects the suspect with the crime. However, it seems that people have jumped at the opportunity to convict suspects when their weapons cannot be recovered. Unlike the analysis of striations and other individual markings on bullets that can truly produce definitive matches, the chemical analysis of bullets has been shown to be nearly useless. As many as one out of every three chemical analysis based matches may actually be false, and the implications of these false matches in the courtroom are scary. Like the re-evaluation of fingerprinting, the errors in this forensic technique need to be publicized and examined independently of their use in court in order to protect innocent people from being wrongly imprisoned. Personally, I find the fact that people would rather invent evidence to convict someone for a crime rather than work to find the actual perpetrator slightly disconcerting.