"British Army destroyed several of the weapons AFTER the inquiry was ordered" (Philippa) - more than several. A couple of dozen, as I understood.

"if the required tests and examination of these weapons had been carried out and reports filed, nothing not already known would be gained in re-examining them, so logically there would be no reason not to destroy the weapons."

The reliability of any forensic tests carried out at the time of the Widgery Inquiry and any reports filed at that time probably would be very open to quesion, since what happened then is widely regarded as a cynical whitewashing operation.

Here is a link to the Northern Ireland Page of the official Para website. Interestingly enough, it is completely blank...

(I've now got a RealAudio streaming sound file of that Seamus Heaney song about Bloody Sunday I posted a link to earlier - click on "streaming" next to the words.)