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Posted by Nate45: I fail to see how testing two, or three rounds of spare ammo, out of even only 5-10 that remained would be ruled destruction of evidence.
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That's really not the most significant issue.
The real problem is that, unless the "spare ammo" had in fact been manufactured by a reputable third party with appropriate procedures for independently maintaining manufacturing, inspection, and lot acceptance test records, the results of testing those rounds would almost certainly not be admissible under the rules in effect today (see posts 31, 35, 39, and 40).
Secondarily, it is quite possible that the results of testing only two or three rounds would not be conclusive, either because the number of data points would be insufficient or because they would not demonstrate convincingly that the results were reliably repeatable, or both.